Classical Violence

Abstract

This chapter offers an examination of Greek and Roman myths in the context of university-level teaching with a focus on Gender-Based Violence (GBV) prevention. The aims can be summarized as follows: providing a sufficient methodological framework through which open the analysis of myths to critical approaches and proposing techniques and ways of interlacing these critical approaches in the classroom. Consequently, mythology as a group of discourses will be examined to identify the qualities of myth as a powerful means of reification for cultural practices from a semiotic approach. Furthermore, a series of in-class experiences will be provided, preceded by an analysis of the concept of GBV and its application in the context of Greek and Roman mythology, its tradition and its reception through the ages.