ABSTRACT

Describing the birth of the universe, Plato stated in Timaeus that, as human nature was of two kinds, the superior race would hereafter be called manand inferior race woman. It is interesting to connect the myth of the cave and the passage on the chora in the Timaeus. Feminist interpretations of ancient philosophy are affected by the various vicissitudes that, in the feminism of the last decades, have seen the term gender placed side by side, sometimes polemically and at other times in a conciliatory fashion, with that of sexual difference. In the field of ancient philosophy, just as in every other field of knowledge, feminist studies are a very rich constellation, articulated in many theoretical perspectives and multiple styles of thought, which cannot be traced to a simple framework. With Aristotle the organization of philosophical writing becomes more systematic and takes the form of the treatise, which will later become customary.