Tag: Jason
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The End of Patriarchy
Hypsipyle Giovanni Boccaccio, in On Famous Women, relates the story of the Queen of Lemnos. During the reign of her father, King Thoas, the women rebelled against the patriarchy. Boccaccio describes it: The women were seized by madness and withdrew their untamed necks from the yoke of men. Scorning the old king’s rule, they unanimously…