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Silence is a woman’s ornament, says Ajax. Yet the heroines of Greek tragedy do not hold their tongue, nor do they shrink from acting – unbendingly, violently, and often catastrophically. In this class we will read six of the most raw, haunting and often baffling works of Greek tragedy, as well as Hegel's famous philosophical commentary on them, in order to understand how the unflinching resistance to the world of men which we see in heroines like Clytemnestra, Antigone, and Medea mirrors a clash between nature and culture, between household and state, and between vengeance and the law.