Discuss the place of women in Athenian society and the response to that in Plato’s Republic and Meno (the latter for confirmation of the views in the Republic). The discussion of education and the role of women in the ideal state envisioned in the Republic begins in Books III and V. Allan Bloom’s translation of the Republic is provided. Please utilize that version of the Republic. Note the Index in the back of the book for all other discussions of the various roles for women and men in the Republic.
There is an interesting modern investigation of Greek mythology and its presentation of women here: “Uxoricide in Pregnancy: Ancient Greek Domestic Violence in Evolutionary Perspective,” by Dr. Susan Deacy and Dr. Fiona McHardy. It can be found at http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/147470491301100505.
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