FEMINISM IN GREEK LITERATURE


Other Books by F. A. WRIGHT

  • THE GIRDLE OF APHRODITE
  • THE ARTS IN GREECE
  • THE LETTERS OF ALCIPHRON (May, 1923)
  • THE LOVER’S HANDBOOK (in preparation)

FEMINISM IN GREEK
LITERATURE

FROM HOMER TO ARISTOTLE

BY
F. A. WRIGHT

LONDON
GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & SONS, LTD.
New York: E. P. DUTTON & CO.
1923

Printed in Great Britain by Mackays Ltd., Chatham.


MANIBUS
A. W. VERRALL
ΤΡΟΦΕΙΑ


CONTENTS

PAGE
Introduction1
I.The Early Epic7
II.The Ionians and Hesiod16
III.The Lyric Poets28
IV.The Milesian Tales43
V.Athens in the Fifth Century57
VI.Æschylus and Sophocles70
VII.Euripides86
VIII.Euripides: The Four Feminist Plays113
IX.The Socratic Circle135
X.Aristophanes150
XI.Plato168
XII.The Attic Orators183
XIII.Aristotle202

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Introduction

There is a question sometimes put to scholars, adoubt often latent in scholars’ minds—How wasit that Greek civilisation, with all its high ideals andachievements, fell so easily before what seems atfirst sight an altogether inferior culture? Thedifficulty is not solved by a reference to militaryresources or administrative skill, for moral strength isthe only thing that matters in history, and a nationhas never yet succeeded merely by pure intellect orb

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