CLASS 40 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Theogony, General Idea, Maenad
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Today"s theme: seeing one side of the possible answers on what makes man and woman different. First see things from a primary male point of view then the woman"s side addressed. Poem: gives you a stereotypical male view of woman. Animal and elements and the way that they are describes makes it less than humans. Pay attention to: at the end, made fun of women through the entire piece but at the end makes fun of men; Theogony vs. works and days vs. genesis. Works and days: women is a form of punishment, athena and all the other gods-aphrodite and the graces-more things that a female has that are positive. Gaia is the rst being: eros mating is the principle of mating, but early females are responsible for the existence of eros. Genesis: from the rib-bone of adam as a companion and to be his helper, in that version the woman is secondary in three ways:
