The woman as a horizon of mediation between two spaces: some convergences between the femenine and the public in the Homeric world
Keywords:
Homer, feminine power, persuasive lógos, public power, petitionAbstract
The aim of the present study is to show the way in which the traditional exclusion of woman from the spaces and mechanisms of public power that rules usually in the ancient Greek culture and her essentially passive role in reference to political questions, is sometimes surpassed by incidental incursions of certain feminine figures in fields reserved usually to men. From this perspective, some feminine figures such as Helena, Criseida, Briseida, Penélope, Calipso or Andrómaca are thus examined. All of them, each one in her own particular way, personify the potential “external” influence and the persuasive power of the logos (the rational word) that constitute the two features through which is often shown the tacit public power of women within the framework of the Homeric world.
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