Feminism in Greek Literature by Frederick Adam Wright (1869 - 1946).
This study, published in 1923, examines the views regarding women's place in Ancient Greek society based especially on the writings of Homer, Euripides, Aristophanes, Plato, Socrates and Aristotle. As the author offers his opinion and judgement, that at times reflect views on women, homosexuality and other social groups and themes that might be considered controversial now, he leaves an interesting picture of the state of Classical scholarship in the early 20th century.
"There is a question sometimes put to scholars, a doubt often latent in scholars' minds — How was it that Greek civilisation, with all its high ideals and achievements, fell so easily before what seems at first sight an altogether inferior culture? The fact is — and it is as well to state it plainly — that the Greek world perished from one main cause, a low ideal of womanhood and a degradation of women which found expression both in literature and in social life. The position of women and the position of slaves — for the two classes went together — were the canker-spots which, left unhealed, brought about the decay first of Athens and then of Greece." (From Introduction)
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Link to author on Wikipedia (if available): (Frederick Adam Wright) : n/a
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Original publication date (if known): 1923
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Keywords that describe the book: women, homer, Ancient Greece, feminism, greece, euripides
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Thanks Todd! I've put in the titles for interest - lots of key names there! I'll come back and fill in the approximate word counts later today.
I'd prefer to hang around in the Launch Pad for a bit to see if we can pick up a DPL. I'll PL myself if we don't get one, but I would have thought this topic would interest someone!
EDIT: Claims can be accepted only for the first 6 chapters, as I think I may need to split chapter 7. I'll come back and work on this tonight!
OK, MW is all sorted out, I think. If the last chapter ends up too long it would be easy enough to add another section at the end, but apart from the Euripides chapters I think they will all come in well under the time limit.
Dear Elizabby,
Do you have a 'preferred pronunciation guide' for this project. I hadn't realised before how much difference there was between common British pronunciation of Ancient names and the common North American. So I checked a bit and even the experts seem to vary a lot eg Robert Fagles of Princeton in his "Odyssey" 1996 gives Nausicaa as 'naw-si'-kay-a' but Emily Wilson of Pennsylvania U. in her "Odyssey" 2018 gives 'now'-sik-ah'. Being a Brit (or possibly just me) I would say 'naw-sic-kay"-a'. Any guidance, please.
Dave
Dear Elizabby,
Thanks. I'll stick with what I'm used to then, unless you want to have all the names pronounced the same way by all readers.
Dave.
PS While I'm asking tricky questions, do you have a 'quick fix' for my laryngitis...no amount of gargle seems to help.