igned to in life was a staple belief and the backbone of Greek culture. Throughout Castriota’s text, there are comparisons that allude to a relationship between the Greek’s views of the Centaurian’s hybris and the qualities possessed by the women of Hellenistic culture. This comparison will become important in analyzing the usefulness of the myth as a means for gender profiling and societal management.Closely related to the hybris of the Centaurs, are the qualities associated with the young women of the time. By relating the female gender to the Centauromachy, Greeks identified women as a societal weakness. Castriota states three times, that male characters referred to the rising of the women as hybris. Clearly, the Greeks have given women equine characteristics. According to Castriota, young women were called polos, “young mare” or “filly”. The mere implication that women, as a gender, contained in them the wildness and hybris of the horse was closely reflected in the myth of the Centauromachy. This is a form of gender profiling, which placed women in a position of weakness as to their potential contribution to Greek society.This weakness, as in a military regime, would have to be monitored and controlled tightly in order to minimize damage done to contemporary Greek society. The Centauromachy myth served as a template for effectively dealing with hybris in culture and society. Women were generally profiled as possessing much hybris and thus, according to the Centauromachy myth, needed to be tightly controlled in order to eliminate the effects of hybris on the framework that governed Greek culture at the time.Another myth used to illustrate the improper functioning and role of women in society was the Amazonomachy. The Amazonomachy was in full-scale opposition to the patriarchal Greeks of the time. Amazons were closely related to the Centauromachy’s hybris nature. They were e...
