In this lecture, Dr Emily Hauser (University of Exeter) thinks about why women matter in the Homeric poems, focusing in particular on: (i) the scene in Book 6 of the Iliad where Hector outlines what he sees as the appropriate behaviour for men (war) and for women (weaving); (ii) the reasons why women do in fact matter in Homer (e.g. driving the plot, providing a different experience to the world of men, direct interaction with men etc.); and (iii) the difficulty of recovering the experience of women from the archaeological and literary record.
This lecture is part of a larger course on women in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. The full course can be found here: [ Ссылка ]
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