Note 66 — Women in Greek Poetry
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The Sicilian Telestes makes rather an interesting remark about Athene when she throws away the flute because it spoils her looks:
τί γάρ νιν εὐηράτοιο κάλλεος ὀξὺς ἔρως ἔτειρεν, ᾇ παρθενίαν ἄγαμον καὶ ἄπαιδ’ ἀπένειμε Κλωθώ;
But, as we have already seen, men took more interest in women in Magna Graecia than in Greece itself.