The treatment of the women/goddesses of the Iliad

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I . Introduction

A . Thesis Statement : Through the lives of the various female characters including the goddesses and other mortal women , it portrayed how women are viewed and treated in the Greek society during the ancient times . As compared to this generation 's perspective on women , the women then are viewed as creatures whose stature is lower than man . Whether a mortal woman or a goddess by nature there is no disparity in the perspective as well as in the treatment that illumined from

this point of view , they are all subordinate to men . However , the goddesses are in constant struggle to prove that they are of more worth than mortal women , who are mere prices and trophies in the eyes of men , especially given that they are immortals who live in Olympus . They have the title to show their supremacy and the immortality to prove their divinity . This showed that the story was somehow able to balance itself and keep it from being a rather discriminatory narrative

II . Mortal Women as Trophies

Briseis

Chryseis

III . Divinities Struggle for Power

Hera

Thetis

Athena

IV . Discussion and Conclusion

Abstract

The Iliad by Homer is one of the most outstanding narratives in history It did not only speak of the events that took place in the long war between Troy and Greece . It also spoke of the different aspects of Greek life including the perception and treatment of women . It was able to tell that women in those...