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Based on the assigned readings and what you’ve learned in lecture, consider power structures (power relations) in Greco-Roman myth. Power, acquiring it, fighting over it, and maintaining power within relationships is a major feature of our myths. Whether it is in the form of gods raping mortals, punishing mortals for their hubris or disrespect, or exercising their divine power and influence in war; or whether it is in the form of mortal men suppressing women, or women finding ways to wrest power from the established power structures that controlled them, power is the name of the game. For this paper, you must identify the one power structure you find to be the most important across our readings. Perhaps you find the struggle between mortals and immortals to be of primary significance; perhaps you feel that women rising up against societal expectations to be the most important; perhaps you see a similarity in the power structure among immortals to that among mortals (do the gods reflect us, or do we reflect them?). What relationship might there be between the Olympians and the mortals? What kind of a class system can you identify among the gods? Among mortals? Do women find themselves with no power, or do they have to exercise their power in more subtle ways? Be sure to center your paper on a central argument. Simply saying, “other gods are subordinate to Zeus,” is NOT a sufficient thesis. Work out the effects of the power structure that you identify. How is this power structure undermined by minorities or by figures further down the social ladder within the structure of power? Base your paper on whatever dynamic you find most important, most interesting, and most inspiring.
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