Episode 117: A Brief History of Misogyny
The word “chauvinism” is an unlikely eponym, but it turns out that the story behind it has all sorts of interesting connections. And our discussion of those connections also leads us into the long history of misogyny in the western world, from Eve and Pandora to the Virgin Mary, courtly love, and Victorian womanhood.
Cocktail: Pandora’s Jar, from Nectar of the Gods
“By Jingo” song
Hesiod’s Works and Days
Hesiod’s Theogony
Semonides 7
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