Exploring Gender Relations in Ancient Greek Literature
A number of scholars, historians, and people in general would agree that the Ancient Greeks were ahead of their time in many ways. After reading an excerpt from Book 6 of Homer’s The Iliad and Sappho‘s Fragment 16 and Fragment 31, it is evident that they were also ahead of their time in acknowledging that there existed different views on gender relations. Through those three pieces of literature we encounter themes that even today, so many years later, are still being debated and explored. ... Reading Homer and Sappho lets us clearly see that there was more than just one view of gender relations in Ancient Greece. ... The has a more humanistic approach to literature, and Homer a more technical one.