Acknowledgments Introduction. Exchange, Gender, and Subjectivity The Tragic Exchange Reaffirmation, Resistance, Negotiation The Social Economy of Exchange The Subject of Exchange Part One. Sovereign Father and Female Subject in Sophocles' Trachiniae One. "The Noblest Law": The Paternal Symbolic and Its Reluctant Subject The Final Exchange Heracles: Subject under Siege Hyllus: The Reluctant Ephebe Two. The Foreclosed Female Subject Iole, Deianira, and the Triangle of Exchange Anti doron dota : Deianira's Gift-Giving Status and Gender A Woman's kleos Three. Alterity and Intersubjectivity Interpellation of the Other, Creation of the Self Spatial Models of Self and Other: Pandora and kalokagathia The Virgin in the Garden Part Two. The Violence of kharis In Aeschylus's Agamemnon Four. The Commodity Fetish and the Agalmatization of the Virgin Daughter Marx and the Fetishized Economy The Occluded Exchange The Agalmatization of the Virgin Daughter Five.

Agalma ploutou : Accounting for Helen The Disenchantment of the agalma Khrusamoibos somaton : The Commodification of the Male Subject Six. Fear and Pity: Clytemnestra and Cassandra Androboulon kear : Clytemnestra's Transgressive Identity A Lament for the Father Part Three. Mourning and Matricide in Euripides' Alcestis Seven. The Shadow of the Object: Loss, Mourning, and Reparation Eight. Agonistic Identity and the Superlative Subject The Matriarch of the oikos and Alcestis 's Domestic Politics The Superlative Subject and Her Husband From Tragedy to the Symposium Nine. The Mirror of xenia and the Paternal Symbolic From Impossible kharis to the agalma Economy From physis to praxis Heracles and the Mirror of xenia The Final Exchange Conclusion. Too Intimate Commerce Notes Bibliography General Index Index Locorum.