Misogynia aut oppressa mulier apud Phaedrum?

What is it about?

In the analysis of App 29, where the language used by Phaedrus is similar to amatory elegiac poets, who are free from any accusation of misogyny, is to demonstrate that the poet should not be labelled as misogynist. The fabulists, by contrast, aims to highlight the situation of woman in the 1st century A.D. in opposition to other men disapprobation on her position, flaunting advantage of her body, triumph and despise the rules of the society and abandon her passive subordination, rebelling against oppression in the society she lived at.

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