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2020/048: Women and Power -- Mary Beard
Monday, May 11th, 2020 07:37 am2020/048: Women and Power -- Mary Beard
Read for the 'A Nonfiction Title by a Woman Historian' rubric of the Reading Women Challenge 2020: read, also, because on my last outing before lockdown I went into a bookshop and this was gleaming up at me, beautiful geometric blue / gold / black cover. And read because I am a woman and a feminist and have an interest in classical history and literature.( Read more... )
Medea, Clytemnestra and Antigone ... are not, however, role models -- far from it. For the most part, they are portrayed as abusers rather than users of power. They take it illegitimately, in a way that leads to chaos, to the fracture of the state, to death and destruction. They are monstrous hybrids who are not, in the Greek sense, women at all. [p. 59]
Read for the 'A Nonfiction Title by a Woman Historian' rubric of the Reading Women Challenge 2020: read, also, because on my last outing before lockdown I went into a bookshop and this was gleaming up at me, beautiful geometric blue / gold / black cover. And read because I am a woman and a feminist and have an interest in classical history and literature.( Read more... )
