Originally posted by silver_tears
Indeed, as does Homer.
I'm sticking to the whole woman as mother, ****, virgin, man as hero, father, and fool. shrugAll primary sources only. ermm
hmm...homer played with quite the contrast of female roles in the iliad tho. on one hand they were war slaves and sex objects on the other there was andromache the typical mother/up on the pedestal figure.
Originally posted by Punkyhermy
hmm...homer played with quite the contrast of female roles in the iliad tho. on one hand they were war slaves and sex objects on the other there was andromache the typical mother/up on the pedestal figure.
True, but I need to focus more on goddesses as opposed to mortals, I'm using Andromache and Penelope as footnotes to me using Demeter, Leto, Gaea and Hera as the fertile mother figures.
Then Artemis, Athena, and Hestia are my virgins.
And obviously Aphrodite serves as the sexual deviant.
Originally posted by silver_tears
True, but I need to focus more on goddesses as opposed to mortals, I'm using Andromache and Penelope as footnotes to me using Demeter, Leto, Gaea and Hera as the fertile mother figures.
Then Artemis, Athena, and Hestia are my virgins.
And obviously Aphrodite serves as the sexual deviant.
hm...thats interesting...hera never struck me as a mother figure of sorts.
and wow...i never knew athena was a virgin.
mhmm true true
Originally posted by Punkyhermy
hm...thats interesting...hera never struck me as a mother figure of sorts.and wow...i never knew athena was a virgin.
mhmm true true
I'm going with her role as mother to four Olympians, not the ideal mother figure obviously when you look at her relationship with Hephaestus, but her fertility is highly prized in ancient Greece.
And yes ma'am, perpetual virgins the lot of them.