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The Veil and the Voice

其他書名	The Study of Female Beauty and Male Attraction in Ancient Greece
出版	Indiana University, Department of Classical Studies, 2006
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=FlIeAQAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋This thesis examines the response of the ancient Greek male to female beauty as it is presented in a wide range of literary sources. The discussion analyzes how ancient Greek writers localized the physically attractive features of a woman in her hair and her voice. Women's hair is still a great source of male sexual interest, but in the ancient Greek world a married woman's uncovered head was placed on the same level of sexual allure as a bare breast would be today. Parallel to a woman's uncovered head is her voice. Greek males considered a woman's voice both intrusive and seductive. The hair and voice together were a danger and a delight. This thesis explores how, starting with Hesiod, a woman does not have to be intentionally seductive or flirtatious in order to be dangerously alluring for the male. All she has to do is be seen or heard.