Notes about a impossible subject of history

Report on a brief introduction to a debate on Façons tragiques de tuer une femme (Paris, Hachette, 1985; trad. cast.: Maneras trágicas de matar a una mujer, Madrid, Visor, 1989). In the question the posed by the title of the seminar Femme, sujets de discours, femmes sujets d'histoire, I saw the opportunity to, as it were, take stock after working for several years on Greek representations of femininity. I had given less consideration to Greek women, as the subject or theme of history, than the discourse, the untraceable discourse of women (there is of course Sappho, but unfortunately even she contents herself with turning round the prevailing masculine discourse), that interminable Greek discourse on women, a huge number of perorations on those  beings in whom "silence is an adornment" as Sophocles' Ajax said to his female companion. However, from the Greek discourse on women, I have quickly moved on the Greek discourse on the feminine, to what in more general terms could be called the Greek relationship with the femenine.