... vases depicting women show them handing warriors their helmets as they prepare for battle, and so some scholars point to the passive role of women. Reading the plays of the classical playwrights give us evidence of women as strong, central characters in Greek tragedies and epics. Not being frequently mentioned in ancient Greek sources does not imply ... knowledge, including salvation and a happy afterlife. Writers from Aristophanes to the Roman senator, Cicero, waxed lyrically about the positive influence of the Eleusinian Mysteries. For over two thousand years, the Greeks and then the ...

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