The Hipermestra Figure in the French 18th Century Theater: Apropos of the Treatment of the Myth of the Danaids in Hypermestre (1758) by Antoine-Marin Lemierre
Abstract
The Hypermestra figure is studied as the only one of the Danaids who did not consent to her husband’s death, Lynceus, after the marriage of her sisters to their cousins, the sons of Egypt. A French tragedy, Hypermestre (1758) by Antoine Marin Lemierre, having as a point of departure the treatment of the subject in Aeschylus.
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