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  • 11 - Fragmented Self and Fragmented Responsibility

  • from Part II - Plays
  • Edited by P. J. Finglass, University of Bristol, Lyndsay Coo, University of Bristol
  • Book:
    Female Characters in Fragmentary Greek Tragedy
    Published online:
    11 June 2020
    Print publication:
    02 July 2020, pp 179-197

  • Summary

    This chapter analyses the particularly complex representation of responsibility and selfhood present in the speech of Pasiphae in Euripides’ Cretans, in which the queen defends her act of falling in love with the bull. The chapter shows how Pasiphae is able to dissociate herself completely from her past actions by appealing to divine intervention, the role of her husband Minos, and an understanding of human morality and motivation that is rooted in hedonistic principles. Pasiphae’s defence thus relies on a concept of the fragmentation of the self that reveals her as one of Euripides’ most philosophically sophisticated female speakers.