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FEMINISM IN GREEK LITERATURE FROM HOMER TO ARISTOTLE
FEMINISM IN GREEK LITERATURE FROM HOMER TO ARISTOTLE
A. WRIGHT
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CONTENTS
Introduction
I. The Early Epic .
II. The Ionians and Hesiod .
III. The Lyric Poets
IV. The Milesian Tales .
V. Athens in the Fifth Century
VI. AESCHYLUS AND SOPHOCLES .
VII. Euripides ….
VIII. Euripides : The Four Feminist Plays
IX. Thk Socratic Circle
X. Aristophanes
XI. Plato
XII. The Attic Orators .
XIII. Aristotle
Introduction
There is a question sometimes put to scholars, a
doubt often latent in scholars’ minds — How was
it that Greek civilisation, with all its high ideals and
achievements, fell so easily before what seems at
first sight an altogether inferior culture? The
difficulty is not solved by a reference to military
resources or administrative skill, for moral strength is
the only thing that matters in history, and a nation
has never yet succeeded merely by pure intellect or
by brute force. The fact is — and it is as well to
state it plainly — that the Greek world perished from
one main cause, a low ideal of womanhood and a
degradation of women which found expression both
in literature and in social life. The position of
women and the position of slaves — for the two
classes went together — were the canker-spots which,
left unhealed, brought about the decay first of
Athens and then of Greece.
For many centuries in Ionia and Athens there
was an almost open state of sex-war. At Miletus a
woman never sat at table with her husband, for he
was the enemy with whom bread must not be broken ;
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