Roles Of Women In Greek Mythology

The Greek mythology is the product of the original spirit of the clan society and it is also the earliest European literary form. At the beginning, it was passed down from generation to generation though word of mouth; later, it was recorded in Homer’s epic and Hesiod's Theogony and many other ancient Greek poetry, drama, history and philosophy, all of these were reorganized as the ancient Greek mythology. What is more, the Greek mythology was divided into two parts, the story of Gods and the legend of heroes. However, Greek mythology not only concerns with the story of gods and heroes, it also shows “the rituals of the ancient Greeks.” The ancient Greek civilization is the cradle of all Western civilization, and many Western culture was build on the basis of anicient Greek, westerners often quote ancient Greek mythology in order to show their value, such as people in Renaissance in the sixteenth century and later, the Enlightenment. As an effective carrier of Greek civilization, mythology bearing and containing with a wealth of historical information, and the colorful female images in Greek Mythology also provide a good aspect for people to learn about that period of time.

In Greek mythology, the universe was orginally a chaos, it was not until many years later that the mother of the earth -
It also shows the transition in women’s social status,
“In myth, there were essentially two main courses of female existence: celibacy or involvement with males and (inevitably) childbearing.” For women who are mortal, the second kind was more frequently seen and probably provide a more promising alternative, because only to goddesses like Athena and Artemis, the world offered them, since they had the power to defend themselves and by definition they would not grow old as