Category: Culture
- Asexuality
- Etruscan Women
- Gender in Roman Civic Identity
- Homeric Hymn to Demeter
- Juvenal, Satire 6
- Menander’s Samia
- Pandora
- The Amazons
- The Dowry in Comedy
This module explores the creation of the first woman, Pandora, and the misogynystic ideology reflected in her myth. Focal points include Pandora’s characterization as an artificial object, the sexual significance of her opening of the jar, and the differences between her and Eve, the first woman of the Biblical tradition.