The Old Comedy and the lives of women: finding social history and seeing the present in Classic Comedy
Ancient Greek and Roman New Comedy shows much about the lives of women in all social classes. These plays regularly manifest widespread social concern about the safety of citizen daughters, and show how beloved those girls are in their families. They show the casual cruelty visited upon enslaved wom...
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| Format: | Online |
| Language: | Portuguese |
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Universidade Estadual de Campinas
2020
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| Online Access: | https://econtents.sbu.unicamp.br/inpec/index.php/phaos/article/view/13540 |
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| Summary: | Ancient Greek and Roman New Comedy shows much about the lives of women in all social classes. These plays regularly manifest widespread social concern about the safety of citizen daughters, and show how beloved those girls are in their families. They show the casual cruelty visited upon enslaved women, and the way those women withstand abuse and support each other. They show women of all classes socially integrated in their neighborhoods. They also show sexual abuse and rape, and a male attitude of ownership toward women that dates back to Iliad Book 1, still in existence today: a man’s status among men is proven by possession of a woman, and his right to possess her is exercised with violence. New Comedy shows average women managing their lives as best they can. Modern students find much that is familiar to them in these plays, particularly in their depiction of sexual violence. |
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| ISSN: | 1676-3076 |
