Week Three - Posting Three

Something that I liked when I was reading to directions or topic for this blog is how we have to read women's work (like Sappho and Aspasia) "through the lens of translators or male authorities". This is true, even when a written story is about a woman there is still information left out about them because society or the writer thinks that information is unimportant. I never had heard of these two writers until this class, and it is just sad to think about how many other important women in history that i have not learned about because of the men in their time that over shadowed them. In many Hollywood movies women of ancient times are usually depicted as very beautiful women, usually wearing little to no clothing, and they have lots of jewelry on. But we do not really learn about how they lived in those times through the movies that they are depicted in.