On Friday's Interactive Oral Discussion, my group partners and I gave a presentation on the feminist perspective in the bronze age. During the process of preparing the presentation, I discovered that Homer portrays different picture of women in many roles; Aphrodite, Chryseis, and Athena are the three women we presented. The Interactive Oral Discussion developed my understanding of how Homer depicts the traditional role of women and challenges those roles in Bronze Age Greece. In Book 1, Homer intends to portray women as prizes and spoils of war. The book begins nine years after the start of the war, and Agamemnon takes Chryseis as his prize. Words like "ransom," "unbought," "appease," and "prize" are used to described Chryseis. (1.104-107)
