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A 3 page paper which
examines Homer’s presentation of women in the Hymn to Demeter and the Iliad, and
Sappho’s presentation of women in the “Poems of Sappho.” No additional sources cited.
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3 pages (~225 words per page)
File: JR7_RAhomwmn.rtf
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to see the position and actions of women only through the eyes of men. But, there were a few female writers who help round out our understanding of women in
ancient times. With that in mind the following paper examines women in the works of Homer, primarily in Hymn to Demeter and then the Iliad. The paper compares Homers representation
of women to that of Sappho in the Poems of Sappho. Sappho and the Hymn to Demeter In Homers Hymn to Demeter we are presented with the most
beautiful and wondrous of goddesses, Demeter. He begins his description of her by revering her wonderful nature, but also stating she is terrible: "I begin to sing of rich-haired Demeter,
terrible goddess-of her and her trim-ankled daughter whom Aidoneus [Hades] rapt away, given to him by all-seeing Zeus the loud-thunderer" (Homer). He equates her and her presence with various forms
of beauty, stating, "from its root grew a hundred blooms and it smelled most sweetly, so that all wide heaven above and the whole earth and the seas salt swell
laughed for joy" (Homer). Another woman he discusses is "Callidice, goodliest in form of the daughters of Celeus" (Homer). Callidice states to Demeter, "Mother, what the gods send us,
we mortals bear perforce, although we suffer; for they are much stronger than we. But now I will teach you clearly, telling you the names of men who have great
power and honour here and are chief among the people....All these have wives who manage in the house, and no one of them, so soon as she had seen you,
would dishonour you and turn you from the house, but they will welcome you; for indeed you are godlike" (Homer). In these two simple, and brief, illustrations, we note that
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