While reading the Eumenides I noticed an interesting topic emerge in Orestes' case. It seems like the verdict depended on the answer to this question: Which sex is the more important? Which murder is more excusable, of the father or of the mother? The Mother simply (simply-ha!) nurses the child and carries it for a short amount of time, but without the Father there is no life, Athena argues. Athena has no mother, and was born of Zeus. Therefore, Athena argues that Orestes should be pardoned for the vengeance of his father.
What I found MORE interesting was a comment from Athena: "I honor the male, in all things but marriage." What is it about femininity that causes her to say this? What is it about the value of marriage that places the importance on femininity?
1 Corinthians 11:8-11 says, "For man does not originate from woman, but woman from man; for indeed man was not created for the woman's sake, but woman for the man's sake. Therefore the woman ought to have a symbol of authority on her head, because of the angels. However, in the Lord, neither is woman independent of man, nor is man independent of woman. For as the woman originates from man, so also the man has his birth through the woman; and all things originate from God."
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