Our discussion in the next few episodes of Goddess Bible Study will focus on the ancient Greeks of the Archaic and Classical periods, who were contemporaries of the ancient Hebrews in the Iron Age.
These stories are important because they show how women’s subordinate role in society was codified in religious myth.
This was the era when the last vestiges of the old Bronze Age matriarchies were subsumed by a series of violent imperial conquests. In the Iron Age, women would no longer be allowed to live independently of patriarchal control. All women inside civilization were forced to submit once and for all, like wild horses forced to take the bridle and saddle.
We review the classic Greek tragedies of Pandora and Clytemnestra, the sister of Helen of Troy, mythical tales that were used to keep women in their place in the new Iron Age cultures.
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Pandora and the Oresteia
We are going to spend the next few episodes of Goddess Bible Study focusing on the ancient Greeks of the Archaic and Classical periods, who were contemporaries of the ancient Hebrews in the Iron Age. These two cultures, along with the Romans and Christianity, are the foundation stones of Western civilization. Both adopted alphabetic scripts from the Pho…
