El rapto en la mitología clásica. Elementos culturales de la violencia de género representados en la mitología grecolatina.

Abstract

Gender violence is very present in the culture of occidental society. It's cultural origin spawn in Classical Antiquity by being portrayed in Greece and Rome's mythology. As an example of this, kidnapping is an action they repeat numerously throughout myths and that had great importance in Greek and Latin society, fact that can be noted by its influence in bridal rites as well as in the relation that is stablished between kidnapping and death. As a result, myths act as the conducting and normalizing agent of these violent behaviours. Lastly, this kidnapping tradition is not only present in classical societies but also in different cultures around the world, siding in form and purpose.