Global History of Sexuality Sourcebook, Vol. 1: From Prehistory to the Sixteenth Century

An Ancient Greek Playwright on Women’s Fate Time: fifth century BCE Place: modern Greece Author: Euripedes Euripedes, one of the great ancient Athenian playwrights, showed real interest in women’s fate. The Marriage of Isaac and Rebekah from the Bible 6. Combabus accordingly in despair at his incapacity for love, donned woman’s attire, that no woman in future might be deceived in the same way. See religion and dissent Hermaphrodite of Balzi Rossi/of Grimaldi, 4 hermaphrodite.