Provide detailed evidence, including excerpts from the literary text.
Demonstrate a clear understanding of the themes, genres, cultures, time periods, and texts that are this week’s focus.
Question:
Sappho and Murasaki Shikibu represent the first two female authors we have encountered in this course. In your Week 1 paper, you were asked to consider how gender is portrayed in The Odyssey. Additionally, in our Week 2 reading of Antigone, gender roles played a pivotal part in the conflict between Creon and the daughter of Oedipus.
How does this understanding of gender differ from the works of the ancient Greek writers we have read?
