... attention. Numerous problems present themselves in reconstructing the life of women in ancient Greece. Many of the historical sources have been lost, and histories preserved from the past were written by upper class men for their own edification. A few fragments of women's writing exist, including lines from Sappho's poetry. Controversy surrounds the interpretation of these and other artifactual evidence, and thus ... power and this is evident in the drama and literature, and the female deities were chastised in literature for any show of sexual passion. A lesser goddess, Calypso, in th...

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