Female Characters and Ancient Texts

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In two parts, passages from Plato's Phaedo and Symposium, The Life of St. Pelagia the Harlot, Selected Poems by Constantine Cafavy, Daniel 12:1, and Virgil’s Georgics, and of female characters Diotima, Judith, and St. Mary the Harlot, and an examination of narrative similarities between Virgil’s Georgics (Book IV) and Book IV of Homer’s “The Odyssey” are analyzed in 4 pages. The bibliography cites 5 sources.