Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 224
Trim: 5¾ x 9
978-0-8226-3066-1 • Hardback • December 1997 • $102.00 • (£78.00)
978-0-8226-3067-8 • Paperback • December 1997 • $40.00 • (£31.00)
Helen Pournara Karydas is a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University and teaches classics at the Boston Latin School.
Chapter 1 Introduction
Part 2 The Role of Eurykleia in the Odyssey
Part 3 Nurses in Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides
Part 4 The Nurse in Hippolytus
Chapter 5 Conclusion
This book is a timely and welcome exploration of the development of what is more than simply a literary stereotype. . . . this study is a valuable contribution to the study of marginal women in Greek literature.
— Judith Fletcher; Bryn Mawr Classical Review