From Antigone to Joan of Arc.

In the universe of the hellenic tragedy, a woman has sum of two units ways to break without of the private domain and penetrate the public space otherwise reserv for men The first is unconditional self-sacrifice for her husband or father. Iphigenia and Polyxena, to cite sum of two units examples, both insist upon freely assuming the sacrificial slaughter that is imposed upon them by the male warrior community. In this genuinely formal act of freely willing, of assuming, as the rise of one's free decision, what is in any case brutally imposed upon the individual as an inevitable necessity, resides the elementary