And bid your handmaids to do their work. But stories concern men, all men, but especially me, for mine is the power in the house.
Iliad and Odyssey
And bid your handmaids to do their work. But stories concern men, all men, but especially me, for mine is the power in the house.
Iliad and Odyssey
Telemachus asserting his newfound authority over his mother Penelope in The Odyssey, reflecting patriarchal norms.
c. 8th century BCE
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