Classical Studies 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Odysseus, Cult Image, Aulos

• School: Western University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: Classical Studies 1000
• Professor: Robert Stanley Brown

Document Summary

Women and the children in classical athens: m. r. lefkowitz and m. b. fant (eds), women"s life in greece and rome: a. Source book in translation (2nd ed. , baltimore 1992: almost all of our sources are texts composed by men (for men, written and performed by men, audience as almost exclusively if not exclusively male, there are a few exceptions: Is this authentic women"s voice or is i filtered through a male scribe: travel diary of egeria (woman) Ad: many ascriptions to women are problematic. Any prominent figure in classical athens was satirized and mocked in various. Mothers daughters betrayers sometimes helper but helper usually becomes betrayer of someone else i. e. woman helps hero but ends up betraying her father subordinate to men male dominance in myth: goddesses are different. More autonomous and powerful than mortal women i. e. hera in iliad is seen as equal partner to zeus, even deceives him at one point.