"of the man-counselling mind"
an adjective used of Clytemnestra I believe. I'm using it in an essay to refer to the masculine women of tragedy, but I'd like to have the original greek word.
Can anyone help ?
"man-counselling mind"
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Aeschylus, Agamemnon line 11 :
(ὧδε γὰρ κρατεῖ)
[b]γυναικὸς ἀνδρόβουλον ἐλπίζον κέαρ[/b]
"For thus commands my queen, woman in passionate heart and man in strength of purpose." (Translation by H. W. Smyth, from Perseus)
Literally "Thus dominates the man-minded (virile ideas) thinking heart [usually κῆρ] of a women."
There is also the word ἀνδρόφρων, Sophocles, Fragment 943, though not assignable to a determined tragedy :
[b]κατ’ ὀρφανὸν γὰρ οἶκον ἀνδρόφρων γυνή[/b]
"For in the bereft house there is a man-minded woman."
(ὧδε γὰρ κρατεῖ)
[b]γυναικὸς ἀνδρόβουλον ἐλπίζον κέαρ[/b]
"For thus commands my queen, woman in passionate heart and man in strength of purpose." (Translation by H. W. Smyth, from Perseus)
Literally "Thus dominates the man-minded (virile ideas) thinking heart [usually κῆρ] of a women."
There is also the word ἀνδρόφρων, Sophocles, Fragment 943, though not assignable to a determined tragedy :
[b]κατ’ ὀρφανὸν γὰρ οἶκον ἀνδρόφρων γυνή[/b]
"For in the bereft house there is a man-minded woman."
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