Post by Dominique Martin on Sept 29, 2016 1:24:27 GMT
I don't know that this is really relevant, but it's something that immediately caught my attention. Near the beginning of the book, women interrupt a fight between the Sabines and the Romans. Knowing that they were in conflict over them they express, they instead of the men fighting they should just slay the women who are the cause of the fight. "And surely it were better for us to die than to live if we be bereaved of our fathers or of our husbands."
This brought me back to our discussion of the Aeneid, thinking that it was Virgil's interpretation of women and them being and instrument for movement in the story. It makes me wonder if that's just how it was. Women knew that men were superior and that was that. A women's place was to make home and bear children, they didn't have much worth besides that and the women knew it.
This brought me back to our discussion of the Aeneid, thinking that it was Virgil's interpretation of women and them being and instrument for movement in the story. It makes me wonder if that's just how it was. Women knew that men were superior and that was that. A women's place was to make home and bear children, they didn't have much worth besides that and the women knew it.
