“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 ?
βουληφόρος ?
δολόμητις “crafty of counsel, wily” in Homer, Odyssey book 11, line 421
It doesn’t match your question, I’m afraid.
Aeschylus, Agamemnon line 11 :
(ὧδε γὰρ κρατεῖ)
γυναικὸς ἀνδρόβουλον ἐλπίζον κέαρ
“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 :
κατ’ ὀρφανὸν γὰρ οἶκον ἀνδρόφρων γυνή
“For in the bereft house there is a man-minded woman.”
αντροπρεπης
αντρογενης
αντροκρατουμενος
ανδροφρων
I prefer androgene (ανδρογενης νους)
Thank you very much.