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Fatimah, pitiable daughter of Muhammad and wife of Imam Ali, presumptuous seen as the pinnacle of female virtues and the ideal role model for the entirety of women. [1] Sita as the ideal Hindu or Indian woman [2] [3] Penelope, wife of Odysseus in the Odyssey, described as the ideal woman of ancient Greek society, "the embodiment of chastity ...
After a young woman loses her job she takes off for a Hellenic holiday that sends her life on a new course.
Greek version of nougat; found everywhere in Greece, but specially made on the Heptanese. Melomakarona (μελομακάρονα) "Honey macaroons" which are cookies soaked in a syrup of diluted honey (μέλι or meli in Greek, thus melo-makarona), then sprinkled with crushed walnuts. Typically baked for Easter and Christmas.
The price is usually high early in the morning (8-9h00) and is lowered as the time passes, especially if the product does not sell well that particular day. The new price is advertised on paper cards and orally. The lowest possible prices can be found after the midday (particularly by 13-14h00), often less than half the original starting price. [4]
Image credits: tvalwx #2. My hubby snapped this pic as I fell asleep sitting up, breastfeeding our 2 week old twins. Exhausted doesn’t fully describe this experience as I was healing from 2 ...
[8] Plato unsurprisingly excludes poetry, embodied by the figure of a woman, from his ideal city-state. [9] The Athenians however thought it important to place on "display those feature[s] of human experience that inspire terror, sorrow and rejection, and they accomplished their mission by giving women visibility and a powerful voice." [9]
One of the many myths surrounding the Cult of Artemis at Brauron originates with the story of Iphigenia.In the story of the Trojan War, as described by Aeschylus, the Greeks had earned the disfavor of Artemis by shooting one of her sacred stags and thus were unable to put to sea against the Trojans due to disfavorable winds, conjured by the goddess.
Significantly, the women who contribute to the eternal feminine often appear in groups, and at times one of them calls up the image of another. In Helen there are hints of Gretchen (in the cloud scene) and Sophia; Galatea appears as an Aphrodite figure. The eternal feminine is a communal affair, a sisterhood.