CLA232H1 Lecture Notes - Iron Age, Pithos, Distant Relatives
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Simon de boir wrote a women is not born a women, a woman becomes a woman . Some say, this is innate, that they don"t have a brain. Others say that is nomos (they are not encouraged in the undergrad, not enough role models, not conducive to raising family. This is the central theme in this play. In greece, they believe that men are innately superior than a woman. (parallel with barbarian, they are not just different, but greeks are superior. ) In both of his works the theogony and the works and days, the birth/creation of pandora is tied to permeseus and the sacrifice trick. Hesiod connects fire, sacrafise and women. (all these three elements are necessary) It"s a shame we don"t need them, because otherwise we would be gods (these things keep us alive, but marks our separationg to the gods). Our relationship with the gods is deceit and increasing distance.
