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MAN THE TAMER Case studies in masculine ideology, power and the domestication of the wild in Ancient Greek social thought A Thesis Submitted to The National University of Ireland in Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy by Micheál Pearse Geoghegan B.A. (NUI Galway) Discipline of Classics School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies National University of Ireland, Galway Head of Discipline Dr Pádraic Moran Supervisor Dr Edward Herring B.A., PhD August 2020 Table of Contents Dedication ................................................................................................................. i Acknowledgements ................................................................................................ ii Abstract .................................................................................................................. iv Abbreviations ......................................................................................................... v Chapter 1: Introduction – The Wild and the Tame ............................................ 1 1.1. The Wild and the Tame ..................................................................................... 1 1.1.1. ................................................................................................................ 1 1.1.2. ................................................................................................................ 7 1.1.3. ................................................................................................................ 9 1.2. The Literature and Chapters ............................................................................. 16 1.2.1. .............................................................................................................. 16 1.2.2. .............................................................................................................. 22 Chapter 2: Wild Boys and Civilised Men in the Homeric Epics ...................... 28 2.1. Introduction ...................................................................................................... 28 2.2. Manly Beasts and Beastly Men in Greek Myth and Epic ............................... 29 2.2.1. .............................................................................................................. 29 2.2.2. .............................................................................................................. 32 2.2.3. .............................................................................................................. 33 2.2.4. .............................................................................................................. 34 2.3. Masculinities: the Savage and the Civilised ................................................... 37 2.3.1. .............................................................................................................. 37 2.3.2. .............................................................................................................. 39 2.3.3. .............................................................................................................. 41 2.4. Taming Agenorie: Dangerous Masculinity and its Subordination ................... 44 2.4.1. .............................................................................................................. 44 2.4.2. .............................................................................................................. 46 2.4.3. .............................................................................................................. 48 2.4.4. .............................................................................................................. 51 2.5. Conclusion ...................................................................................................... 54 Chapter 3: Taming the Horse of Youth .............................................................. 57 3.1. Introduction ..................................................................................................... 57 3.2. Young Man, Wild Man, Horse Man ................................................................ 58 3.2.1. .............................................................................................................. 58 3.2.2. .............................................................................................................. 60 3.2.3. .............................................................................................................. 65 3.2.4. .............................................................................................................. 67 3.3. Wild Boys and the City ................................................................................... 70 3.3.1. .............................................................................................................. 70 3.3.2. .............................................................................................................. 74 3.3.3. .............................................................................................................. 77 3.4. From Tamed to Tamer: Ethical Development of the Citizen Youth ............... 78 3.4.1. .............................................................................................................. 78 3.4.2. .............................................................................................................. 79 3.4.3. .............................................................................................................. 81 3.4.4. .............................................................................................................. 82 3.5. Conclusion ...................................................................................................... 88 Chapter 4: Sex, Power and the Taming of Wild Women ................................. 91 4.1. Introduction ..................................................................................................... 91 4.2. The Feminine and the Wild ............................................................................. 92 4.2.1. .............................................................................................................. 92 4.2.2. .............................................................................................................. 95 4.3. Playing the Animal: Female Initiation in the Greek polis ............................... 99 4.3.1. .............................................................................................................. 99 4.3.2. ............................................................................................................ 102 4.3.3. ............................................................................................................ 104 4.4. Female Sexuality and the Wild Male ............................................................ 107 4.4.1. ............................................................................................................ 107 4.4.2. ............................................................................................................ 110 4.4.3. ............................................................................................................ 115 4.4.4. ............................................................................................................ 116 4.5. Odysseus the Tamer: Male Sophrosyne and the Subordination of the Wild. 118 4.5.1. ............................................................................................................ 118 4.5.2. ............................................................................................................ 121 4.6. Conclusion .................................................................................................... 126 Chapter 5: Back to Nature: Untameable Youth and Feral Women in Euripides’ Hippolytos .......................................................................................... 128 5.1. Introduction ................................................................................................... 128 5.2. Phaidra: Woman as Tamer ............................................................................ 129 5.2.1. ............................................................................................................ 129 5.2.2. ............................................................................................................ 130 5.2.3. ............................................................................................................ 131 5.2.4. ............................................................................................................ 134 5.2.5. ............................................................................................................ 135 5.2.6. ...........................................................................................................