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concept-3099	Hughes, Sydney	“Undone With Terror”: Aeschylus’ Suppliants as Agents of Binary Terror	2025	20	.pdf	application/pdf	5662	254	49	The Danaids, portrayed as refugees from Egypt in the original text, inherently challenged the Greek/barbarian binary, a construct that Athenian audiences would have associated with cultural and racial superiority, and justified their exclusion from the Athenian democratic framework.22 Casting women of color reinforces the historical dynamic in the text while confronting contemporary audiences with a legacy of colonialism and racial discrimination. Gender performance in ancient Greek theatre already blurred the lines of gender representation through its practice of male actors portraying female characters.24 In a contemporary production, an emphasis on the original text’s references to gendered violence could have the same effect on contemporary audiences.	cache/concept-3099.pdf	txt/concept-3099.txt