Homeric Society a Sociological Study of the Iliad And Odyssey
The book Homeric Society a Sociological Study of the Iliad And Odyssey was written by author Keller, Albert Galloway, 1874-1956 Here you can read free online of Homeric Society a Sociological Study of the Iliad And Odyssey book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Homeric Society a Sociological Study of the Iliad And Odyssey a good or bad book?
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A sort of tabu on certain parts of the body may have 1 XXII, 126 ff ; vi, 71 ff; XVIII, 567 ff; 593 ff. 2 vi, 15-19; 109; 276 ff. 8 II, 514 ; XVI, 180 ff ; xi, 235-259. « XIV, 333 ff ; viii, 332 ff ; vi, 136 ff ; diffidence in the latter case may have been due to general appearance (cf. Vi, 137), as the feeling is exceptional. 6 xviii, 184 ff. 14 210 HOMERIC SOCIETY been at the root of some of these ideas concerning shame. 1 On the other hand, however, the young women of the households bathed a...nd anointed the young men who were the guests of the house, 2 and one is led to 'believe that, in the majority of instances, modesty was formal and traditional, founded upon patriarchal restrictions and not yet instinctive. Freedom of expression between the sexes points the same way ; there was little or nothing to con- ceal. Indeed, methods of sexual attraction were most successful when novelties of ornament or dress stimulated the imagination ; a fact abundantly paralleled in ethnography. 3 Beauty and accomplishments in the duties of the house-wife, in woman, and beauty and courage in man, offered mutual attractions between the sexes; 4 they were desirable in marriage, partly, we sus- pect, for the sake of fine offspring, for hereditary qualities were clearly recognised among men (where regularly the father's part was emphasised) as well as among animals.
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