women from the ancients anderson, pp. 52-66 “traditions empowering women”

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Women from the Ancients Anderson, pp. 52-66 “Traditions Empowering Women”

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Page 1: Women from the Ancients Anderson, pp. 52-66 “Traditions Empowering Women”

Women from the Ancients

Anderson, pp. 52-66

“Traditions Empowering Women”

Page 2: Women from the Ancients Anderson, pp. 52-66 “Traditions Empowering Women”

Traditions Empowering Women

• Goddesses

• Warriors

• Queens and Empresses

• Wealthy Women

• Educated and Artistic Women

Page 3: Women from the Ancients Anderson, pp. 52-66 “Traditions Empowering Women”

Goddesses – Magic 3

• Clotho – the spinner (thread of life)

• Atropos – the Terminator

• Lachesis – allocates good and bad fortune

The Fates

Page 4: Women from the Ancients Anderson, pp. 52-66 “Traditions Empowering Women”

Goddesses - Magic 3

• Urda (the past)• Verdandi (the present)• Skuld (the future)

Seen here from Richard Wagner’s Der Ring die Niebelungen

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Goddesses-potent symbols

Diana of Ephesus – “multi mamia”

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Venus de Milo

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Warriors

Zenobia ↓

Wounded Amazon

Boudica ↑

Valkyrie on horseback↓

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Queens and Empresses• Enobarbus: “For her own

person she was statue still Her gown was silk of an azure blue Diaphanous curtains obscured the view But her eyes were dark and pierced right through…”

• Chorus: “Royal Wench, Royal Whore”– Antony and Cleopatra (I,v)

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Queens and Empresses

• Galla Placidia (388-450 CE) ruled Western Roman Empire as Augusta

• Empress Irene (753-803 CE) ruled Byzantinium after blinding her son

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Wealthy Women• “You see here, stranger,

the statue of a woman who was pious and very wise, Scholastica. She provided the great sum of gold for constructing the part of the [two public baths] here that had fallen down.” (part of inscription from Ephesus)

• No mention of them outside Greece and Rome

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Educated and/or Artists• Few women in science or the arts; if

they were, they most likely had a father in the subject

• None of the women recorded as artist has any surviving work

• Beruriah is one example of a Jewish biblical scholar

• Hypatia (370-415) taught at U. of Alexandria in mathematics and philosophy

• The Christian Patriarch incited the crowds to kill her and burn her books

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Sappho of LesbosI have not had one word from her

Frankly I wish I were deadWhen she left, she wept

A great deal; she said to me, "This parting mustbe endured, Sappho. I go unwillingly."

I said, "Go, and be happybut remember (you know

well) whom you leave shackled by love If you forget me, think

of our gifts to Aphroditeand all the loveliness that we shared

all the violet tiaras,braided rosebuds, dill and

crocus twined around your young neck myrrh poured on your headand on soft mats girls with

all that they most wished for beside themwhile no voices chantedchoruses without ours,

no woodlot bloomed in spring without song..."