CLA230H1 Lecture 3: CLA230 Lecture 3 Text Notes
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Oikos: house/family social foundation includes slaves, close relations, the house and its contents basic concept consists of monogamous union of man and woman to produce and rear legitimate children. Sappho: female poet who lived around 600 b. c. Misogyny: hatred for women important theme in greek culture women represented as an evil influence i. e. pandora. Xenophon: athenian aristocrat and professional soldier, wrote about women around 400 b. c. , describing a fictional conversation between socrates and ischomachus, does not represent women as a punishment to men, in the way that. Aspasia: courtesan of pericles courtesan is hetairai" in greek bore. Pericles a child; he kissed her in full view of his fellow citizens and she conversed with intellectuals. Boy-love part of the social environment of greek society: homosexual behaviour between the mature sexually active ale (erastes lover ) and the prepubescent passive partner (eromenos .
