Os papéis femininos nas tragédias gregas (V ao IV A.C.)

Abstract

This scientific research pretends to analyze and mapping the genders roles included in the greek tragedies, created between V and VI centuries b.C. and presented in Athens. These literary works has been consecrated by the occidental literature as a mark on history of theatre, in that way the golden trio: Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides have left a huge greek cultural legacy to the world. The plays were exposed to the public with the purpose of disseminate one variety of messages and they reflected aspirations and the imagination of the own society who made them. Therefore, the study extract from documentation relevant details about the functioning of Athenian society and the genders patterns who operates for man and woman, in example of conceptions about behaviors, nature, morality, policy and religion. Based on the assumption that gender determinations are cultural, in other words, non-naturals and created, recreated and reinforced by human beings, we denaturalize stereotypes created centuries ago about the sexes, in contrast to them, we can understand the gender prejudices of the actual days in similarity search and reinterpreting it, we recognize they are existing and powerful, but we doubt about one total submission practiced by the individuals front these sociocultural systems.