Misgynism or Photo-Feminism Literature Essay
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Although Euripides is called “misogynist” by his contemporaries, recent studies qualified him as a champion of women’s equality (Rabinowitz, 1993, p.90-1). Certainly, the author of The Trojan Women, Alcestis, Medea, and Hippolytus, who talks about the ill-treatment and suppression of women in ancient Greece, cannot be called a misogynist.