womens sexuality in ancient literature
World Literature I September 27, 2004 Throughout history women have been portrayed as sexual objects for men. ... Women in ancient times were sometimes represented as what some may call, for a lack of better terms, a “ho,” whether they were human or goddesses. ... The way women are shown here is just mind boggling to many men today, who wish that the women of our time were just like the women of ancient Greece. We men of today face the same problems with women as men in ancient civilizations did. ... The same principles apply to women of ancient times as well. ... In the end the mind frame of the women of ancient Greece prevailed and they stopped the war by making their husbands sexual frustrations so great that they got what they wanted, an end to the war.