By John Peradotto, J P Sullivan
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But recent investigation has demonstrated that the social institutions in particular, as well as many other features of the poems, reflect Dark-Age culture. Although there is still considerable dispute as to which "background" predominates, it is still evident that the juxta-position of old and new afforded Homer an opportunity for making a complex and comprehensive statement about the meaning as well as the evolution of social forms. We shall examine these in some detail, paying particular attention to differences in social practice that have ramifications for the status of women.
And so we must conclude that where claims are made as to the "high" position of Homeric women vis-à-vis their later counterparts, scholars either illegitimately infer higher social status for women on the basis of Homer's favorable attitude toward the marriage relationship, or depend upon an unfairly and incorrectly negative evaluation of women's position in later times. On the other hand, where it is maintained, as by Finley, that Homer's picture of women confirms the negative judgment of antiquity as a whole, then the difference between the positive emphasis in Homer's presentation of women and their role, and the misogynistic tendency in later literature, has not been given sufficient weight.
The traces of these differentiated characteristics are more or less visible everywhere, but they are especially visible where character is more developed, and most of all in man. The fact is, the nature of man is the most rounded off and complete, and consequently in man the qualities or capacities above referred to are found in their perfection. Hence woman is more compassionate than man, more easily moved to tears, at the same time is more jealous, more querulous, more apt to scold and to strike.
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