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== 570–510 BC: Pythagoras of Samos == | == 570–510 BC: Pythagoras of Samos == | ||
{{quote|There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman.}} | {{quote|There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman.}} | ||
==800-700 BC: The Odyssey== | ==c. 800-700 BC: The Odyssey== | ||
{{Quote|"So true is it that there is nothing more dread or more shameless than a woman who puts into her heart such deeds [...]"|''Homer. The Odyssey with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, PH.D. in two volumes'', Book XI.<ref>http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0136%3Abook%3D11%3Acard%3D404</ref>}} | {{Quote|"So true is it that there is nothing more dread or more shameless than a woman who puts into her heart such deeds [...]"|''Homer. The Odyssey with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, PH.D. in two volumes'', Book XI.<ref>http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0136%3Abook%3D11%3Acard%3D404</ref>}} | ||
{{Quote|"And another thing will I tell thee, and do thou lay it to heart: in secret and not openly do thou bring thy ship to the shore of thy dear native land; for no longer is there faith in women."|''Homer. The Odyssey with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, PH.D. in two volumes, Book XI.''<ref>http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0136%3Abook%3D11%3Acard%3D440</ref>}} | {{Quote|"And another thing will I tell thee, and do thou lay it to heart: in secret and not openly do thou bring thy ship to the shore of thy dear native land; for no longer is there faith in women."|''Homer. The Odyssey with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, PH.D. in two volumes, Book XI.''<ref>http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0136%3Abook%3D11%3Acard%3D440</ref>}} | ||
==c. 800-700 BC: Hesiod== | |||
{{Quote|"[About the creation of Pandora, the first mortal woman]: | |||
And at once he [Zeus] made an affliction for mankind to set against the fire. The renowned Ambidexter ['skilled or strong in both arms', an epiphet for the God Hephaestus] moulded from earth the likelihood of a modest maiden, by Kronos' son's design. [...] | |||
When he had made a pretty bane to set against a blessing, he let her out to where the other gods and men were, resplendent in the finery of pale-eyed one [Athena] whose father is stern. Both immortal gods and mortal man were struck with wonder when they saw that precipitious trap, more than mankind can manage. For from her is descended the female sex, a great affliction to mortals as they dwell with their husband—no fit partners for accursed poverty, but only for plenty."|Hesiod, 1988, ''Theogeny and Works and Days'', trans. M.L West, Oxford University Press, Oxford UK, p. 20.}} | |||
{{Quote|"As the bees in their sheltered nests feed the drones, those conspirators in badness, and while they busy themselves each day and every day till sundown making the white honeycomb, the drones stay in their sheltered shells and pile the toil of others into their own bellies, even so as a bane for mortal men has high-thundering Zeus created women, conspirators in causing difficulty."|''ibid'', pp. 20-21.}} | |||
{{Quote|"And he [Zeus] gave a second bane to set against a blessing for the man who, to avoid marriage and the trouble women cause, chooses not to wed, and arrives at grim old age lacking anyone to look after him. He is not short of livelihood while he lives, but when he dies, distant relatives share out his living. Then again, the man who does partake of marriage, and gets a good wife who is sound and sensible, spends his life with the bad competing with the good; while the man who gets an awful kind lives with unrelenting pain in heart and spirit, and is ill without a cure"|''ibid'', p. 21.}} | |||
==fl. 6th century BC (disputed): Lao Tzu== | ==fl. 6th century BC (disputed): Lao Tzu== | ||