Representation and power: the woman who spoke through Apollo in Herodotus' Histories
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2177-4218.v11i1p159-178Keywords:
Gender history, War, HerodotusAbstract
The Histories, written in the fifth century BCE by Herodotus of Halicarnassus is the only work of the so-called “Father of History” that has reached the contemporary times. The author lived between c. 480-425 BCE. In Histories, he addressed much more than the Graeco-Persian Wars, whose reports are the most substantial throughout history. In this context, Herodotus described the actions of Greek and Persian women as war advisers for their husbands and / or other male characters. According to his text, we argue that the Greek author believed that Greek and Persian women were equal in their performance: maintainers of the socio-political order. We analyze how the current scholarship has understood the feminine in Herodotus’ work, based on the seer Pitia case study.
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