Role of women - scholarship - Iliad

Question 1

How many scholars reference role of women in the Iliad

Answer 1

3

Question 2

Which scholars reference the role of women in the Iliad

Answer 2

• Greensmith
• Yilmaz
• Wilcock

Question 3

Who wrote:
“Superficially….. the Iliad details masculine conflict, masculine ego, and masculine power, in a world in which women do little more than watch and weep.”

Answer 3

Greensmith

Question 4

Who wrote:
[Book 6] “In identifying the basic needs of her son – the need to pause, to pray, and to gain nourishment – Hecuba establishes herself as the archetypal mother.”

Answer 4

Greensmith

Question 5

Who wrote:
“By offering her husband detailed and precise military advice, Andromache proves false any notion of the Iliadic female being excluded from and ignorant of the world of war.”

Answer 5

Greensmith

Question 6

How does Greensmith reference the role of women in the Iliad

Answer 6

• “Superficially….. the Iliad details masculine conflict, masculine ego, and masculine power, in a world in which women do little more than watch and weep.”
• “In identifying the basic needs of her son – the need to pause, to pray, and to gain nourishment – Hecuba establishes herself as the archetypal mother.” – book 6
• “By offering her husband detailed and precise military advice, Andromache proves false any notion of the Iliadic female being excluded from and ignorant of the world of war.”

Question 7

Who wrote:
“siding of the gods is a Homeric invension… Apollo, Aphrodite, Artemis, Leto supporting the Trojans on one side and Athena, Hera, Poseidon, Hermes supporting the Achaeans…. Zeus, most importantly does not take a side, but intervenes in parts of the war where he sees necessary.”

Answer 7

Yilmaz

Question 8

What is the implication of:
“siding of the gods is a Homeric invension… Apollo, Aphrodite, Artemis, Leto supporting the Trojans on one side and Athena, Hera, Poseidon, Hermes supporting the Achaeans…. Zeus, most importantly does not take a side, but intervenes in parts of the war where he sees necessary.”

Answer 8

The goddesses are listed alongside the gods suggesting no difference in importance

Question 9

How does Yilmaz reference the role of women in the Iliad

Answer 9

“siding of the gods is a Homeric invension… Apollo, Aphrodite, Artemis, Leto supporting the Trojans on one side and Athena, Hera, Poseidon, Hermes supporting the Achaeans…. Zeus, most importantly does not take a side, but intervenes in parts of the war where he sees necessary.”

– *the goddesses are listed alongside the gods suggesting no differentiation in importance

Question 10

Who wrote:
[When Aphrodite rescues Paris in book 4 and fetches Helen disguised as a mortal] “Helen sees through the goddess’s disguise, and (astonishingly) refuses to comply …… No other character in Homer talks back to a divinity like this, let alone gets away with it.”

Answer 10

Wilcock

Question 11

How does wilcock reference the role of women in the Iliad

Answer 11

[When Aphrodite rescues Paris in book 4 and fetches Helen disguised as a mortal] “Helen sees through the goddess’s disguise, and (astonishingly) refuses to comply …… No other character in Homer talks back to a divinity like this, let alone gets away with it.”