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Mar 31, 2021 · Knowledge is power—that’s why in modern history, Zimmerman argues, men have excluded women from access to formal education. “The story of the Sphinx is the story of a woman with questions ...
- Nora Mcgreevy
Sep 15, 2023 · London-based historian Sarah Clegg says many of them stem from historical beliefs about "traditional womanhood". "If you don't behave as you ought to, you are a demon, you are a monster. You ...
May 25, 2024 · May 25, 2024. For centuries, the Greek Gorgon Medusa has been cast as a vicious monster, a beastly woman with writhing snakes for hair and a deadly gaze that turns living creatures to stone ...
- Alexandra Alter
- Marie-Claire Beaulieu
- Rebel goddesses. Female rebellion is at the heart of the Greek story about the creation of the world. Gaia, the Earth goddess, rebels against her husband Ouranos, the Sky, who smothers her and refuses to let her children be free.
- Mortal women. Greek culture, however, was suspicious of strong-willed women and portrayed them as villains. Classical scholar Mary Beard explains that women are characterized in this way by male writers to justify women’s exclusion from power.
- Comedy and tragedy. In a more humorous way, in “Lysistrata,” the playwright Aristophanes imagines the women of Athens protesting the destructive Peloponnesian War by going on a sex strike.
- Women and moral justice. Throughout these stories, female figures stand for moral justice and as an embodiment of the resistance of disempowered people.
Jul 18, 2023 · Yet women in these myths spoke truth to power and fiercely resisted injustice and oppression. Female rebellion is at the heart of the Greek story about the creation of the world. Gaia, the Earth goddess, rebels against her husband Ouranos, the Sky, who smothers her and refuses to let her children be free. She orders her son Kronos to castrate ...
Oct 30, 2023 · While in the medieval period, women and men were equally affected by this criminalization – with regional particularities sometimes observed – between 1560 and 1750, 80 to 85% of those ...
May 24, 2024 · Goddesses and ConsortsWomen in Ancient Myth. 24.05.2024 to 16.03.2025 Altes Museum. Monstrous like Medusa, beautiful like Aphrodite, faithful like Penelope – many women from ancient mythology are known primarily as stereotypes of traditional female roles. Inspired by a surge in new readings of these myths, the Antikensammlung (Collection of ...
