RHETOR 103A Study Guide - Final Guide: Isocrates
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Depictions of female characters as war prizes, grieving mothers and widows, and the. Reveal how women in battle are reduced as pure means, lacking in agency and deprived unifier of greece of an independent existence separate from their roles in service of men"s objectives. But they are not the ultimate ends, the bigger picture of the men"s desire for honor and. Achilles does not want the women when they are returned to him, he is angry because. Thucydides: (funeral oration) fathers/sons/brothers reactions vs. mothers and wives. Encourage people who can still reproduce to do so - mothers and widows war. Literal means - physical and material reproduction of men who are able to go into. Women"s being and role constituted by their ability to create men. Reducing to women to people who abide to societal expectations not seek praise - agents. Isocrates: helen as unifier (figure for rhetoric) but men fighting for athens and behalf of greece.
