Rape, marriage or death?: gender perspectives in the Homeric 'Hymn to Demeter.'

Philological Quarterly | June 22, 1997| | Copyright

Much attention has been given recently to the problem of understanding the societies of ancient Greece and Rome from a woman's point of view; the problem is a particularly difficult one because virtually all of the evidence available is the "product of men and addressed to men in a male dominated world. It takes the assumptions of the masculine order of things for granted."(1) Even the extant corpus of Attic tragedy, which provides "what seems to be a highly articulate and prominent, not marginal, presentation of women, and their role in society," a world in which, "it seems, ...

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