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Bonnie MacLachlan | 336 pages | 02 Aug 2012 | Continuum Publishing Corporation | 9781441179630 | English | New York, United States Women in Classical Greek Religion | Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion

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They were able to go out in public unescorted, participate in athletic contests, and inherit land. In the fourth century, over two-fifths of the land in Sparta was owned by women. In Athens, the law required all inheritances to go through the male line and limited property that could be owned by women. It was the wives who supervised the slaves and managed the household responsibilities, such as weaving and cooking. In affluent homes, women had a completely separate area of the house where men were not permitted. In the homes of the poor, separate areas were not available. So go thou to the temple of Athene, driver of the spoil; [] and I will go after Paris, to summon him, if haply he will hearken to my bidding. Would that the earth might straightway gape for him! If I but saw him going down to the house of Hades, [] then might I deem that my heart had forgotten its woe. But the queen herself went down to the vaulted treasurechamber wherein were her robes, richly broidered, the handiwork of Sidonian women, [] whom godlike Alexander had himself brought from Sidon, as he sailed over the wide sea on that journey on the which he brought back high-born Helen. Of these Hecabe took one, and bare it as an offering for Athene, the one that was fairest in its broiderings and amplest, [] and shone like a star, and lay undermost of all. Then she went her way, and the throng of aged wives hastened after her. Now when they were come to the temple of Athene in the citadel, the doors were opened for them by fair-cheeked Theano, daughter of Cisseus, the wife of Antenor, tamer of horses; [] for her had the Trojans made priestess of Athene. Question: Who were some good and powerful Queens in ancient Greece, and what did they do that made them so great? Question: Who was the highest political figure and who was the lowest? As in, Gods at top and then slaves at bottom. Answer: There were many different political arrangements so what follows is only approximate:. Answer: It was a democracy with an assembly of citizens and elected officials. There were also courts with juries for trying cases. Answer: Women were excluded from politics. But wives influenced their husbands and hetaerae were trained to advise their clients who were often politicians. Answer: It is now, but it was not in ancient Greece. Greece was made up of a number of city-states which were quite independent. Sometimes they would unite against a common enemy, but more often they would fight amongst themselves. Politically Athens was one of the leading states but the political leadership was not nearly as important as her intellectual and artistic leadership. The great dramatists were all Athenian as were most of the artists and philosophers. For years Athens was the center of learning for the world. But it was Rome that spread that learning and not the politics of Athens. Athens was a major political power only for a short period, BCE, and even then did not dominate Greece. Question: do you think that politics had anything to do with the desitions of wemen in the tragedys antigone and medea and odipheos the king? Answer: Politics may apply not only to the application of law to the state and its affairs, but also rumor, status, suspicion, guilt and so on. In this case, since most of the characters are royal, the decisions must relate to politics. But in ancient Greece it is sometimes difficult to distinguish law and custom. Answer: Only men had rights, so women could not stand up for them. Actually the idea was too new for them to realize this. But women did go to court and have favorable settlements. One story which may be instructive is that of Agnodice fl. After completing her studies, she revealed her true identity to women and they flocked to her, happy to have a gynecologist of their own sex. Male doctors were outraged that their female patients preferred Agnodice, though they did not realize she was a woman. They brought her to trial for malpractice and when she publicly revealed her sex, tried to enforce the law prohibiting women from practicing medicine. Prominent women of the city protested and thus succeeded in having the law changed, at least until the twelth century. Question: You have stated that Greek women had no rights…but that Roman women did, then it was stated that only Spartan women had rights. What are the differences in these? And is it both Spartan and Roman women that had rights? Answer: In all of Greece only the Spartan women had a few rights which freed them from any distraction to their childrearing and gave them the right to own property. The powerful Roman matrons got laws passed that protected women. The wives of the Roman emperors had political power along with their husbands. The concept of rights only began to be developed among the Greeks and then the idea was better developed later. Answer: Women did not have any rights except in Sparta where they were free of any labor unrelated to child rearing and they were able to own property. Answer: The public buildings were all temples. The temples of ancient Greece were all multipurpose buildings. Interior rooms were small and unheated. Sometime the building incorporated a court with a surrounding roofed gallery. In this courts a fire could be built for light and warmth. The temples were often surrounded by a porch or gallery that provided some protection from the elements. Outdoor meetings would be held here with partial protection. The altar was usually in from of the building and this is where the more public ceremonies were held. Answer: The most important weapon was the beaked ship. Very much secondly was the chariot. The other weapons were hand weapons: Javelin or spear, sword, axe, bow and arrow, discus, and rocks. During the classical period the weapons were made of steel. During the heroic period they were bronze. Answer: Click here. Question: is there any websites or information available on the women philosophers of ancient greece? There is the site Women Philosophers web site. Answer: It was a pure democracy. All final decisions were taken to an assembly of citizens. Answer: In classical Greece a woman derived her power from her husband. The husband would normally relegate his power to his wife. She would then be in charge of the women in the household, but she would still answer to her husband. In the Mycenaean period some women, queens in particular, delegated power to their husbands. The queen would delegate power over politics and the affairs of state to her husband, the king. Answer: They did not consider it cheating. Men carefully secluded their wives so the wives had little chance for extra affairs. Such a man could be killed. But there were many women a man could have sex with without any problem. The main groups were hetaera and prostitutes. Prostitutes were usually slaves hired for sex. Hetaera were free women, some of whom were no better than prostitutes, while others were trained in music, dance, and counciling. Hetaera seemed to be social organizers who arranged social life for many of the men. Answer: In the Republic, Plato talks at length about women, but he does not favor them. He talks about their unfavorable influence on the education of children, for example. Answer: Both men and women in ancient Greece were interested in beauty. But their beauty was an unadorned one. Men exercised nude and rubbed themselves with olive oil. Women exercised too but they wore a tunic. They depiliated themselves and wore cosmetics litely. The clothes they wore were fairly simple, but they could be very elaborately arranged. Answer: Some people thought Aspasia ruled Athens as a queen because she told Pericles what to do, and he did it. But there were no queens in classical Greece. We are trying to find a woman for her to study — Agnodice may have been legend, as well as Mu lan, and Sappho may be too controversial — any su. Answer: Pericles said any Greek woman who was famous was so for the wrong reason. Sappho was not controversial; what people thought of her was controversial. Aspasia was a courtesan and she also has problems. Hypatia ought to do. She was a Roman who died in AD. Answer Boadaceia was not an ancient Greek. She was a British queen who fought against the Romans and died in 62 AD. Answer: Men and women are not born equal. They are born with different abilities and talents. It did not occur to anyone that they should be treated equally. Answer: In the beginning the women of Athens had the power to vote, and then used that power to select Athena as the patron of the city. Since only women voted for Athena, the men decided to remove the power to vote from the women. In classical times women could not vote. But wives were able to influence husbands, and hetaerae were trained in conversation and politics. Some of these women served as advisors to the politicians. Answer: Men find blond-haired, blue-eyed women sexy with the result that these women find mates easier. For this reason the type persists even though the genes are recessive. This is the same reason human women have permanently enlarged breasts. The ancient Greeks did include blond, blue-eyed women. Usually life is unbearable if the husband and wife do not get along and treat each other well. In most families the husband and wife got along. The problem came in the exceptional families. In ancient Greece a woman could not bring legal action against her husband so in some cases women were treated unfairly. When Alcibiades wife tried to bring action against him he just grabbed her and carried her home, and no one could stop him. But the name is much older and is the name of several Nereids. I do not find any pictures of any of the Nereids named Cleopatra. Answer: Slaves are not identifiable as such. We can either identify slaves by a circumstance or we can identify an occupation that is likely to have been done by slaves. The figure on the left seems to be a servant but she could be a slave or a relative: Click here. Answer: Lysistrata was the name of a play written by Aristophanes as a statement of his frustration with war. The main character, Lysistrata, organizes the Greek ladies so they refuse sex until the war stops. Answer: No. It was a consitutional dyarchy There were two kings and a parliment. It also had a lot of checks and balances on those mynarchs by a legislative body. Mainly the kings were military leaders. Answer: Only some men had rights. Rights were a new concept. Women had no rights. The ancient Greek women had freedom, though, especially compared to the rest of the world. You need to focus on freedom rather than rights. Answer: Perictyone. Question: I am writing an essay on how Homer affected politics in Greece and I was wondering if you could help. Please tell me what type of system Homer would have brought the Greeks closer to. Did he make it more or less democratic? And, could you please show me evidence from either the Iliad or the Odyssey as to how he influenced politics in Greece. Answer: Homer influenced politics by including in his works comments about Dike right , Nomos law , and fate. In addition, Homer included rules which even the gods were subject to. There was not a river absent except Oceanus, nor a single one of the nymphs that haunt fair groves, or springs of rivers and meadows of green grass. When they reached the house of cloud-compelling Zeus, they took their seats in the arcades of polished marble which Vulcan with his consummate skill had made for father Zeus. Homer in the Iliad also supports a right to speak. Nestor says: I can go with my knights and give them that counsel which old men have a right to give. The lesson is that political leadership must be accompanied by wisdom i. Answer: Often men wore just a himation but otherwise they wore the same clothes as the women: Click here. Answer: Mothers raised children and worked around the house. Fathers mated with mothers, worked outside the home, and were involved in government. Lovers were a different matter. In a society where marriages were arranged by fathers, couples hopefully would grow to love one another. Lovers who did not find favor with their parents were a nuisance. Haemon committed suicide when he was deprived of his lover. Helen fell in love with Paris and the Trojan war resulted. Medea fell in love with Jason and caused her brother to be killed when he came after her. But Penelope stayed faithful to Ulysses for 20 years while he was away. Answer: They were expected to produce babies and care for them and they did many other taskes that were felt suitable for women: spinning and weaving, cooking and serving, Cleaning and carrying water. Answer: No ancient Greek women ever did this. But there are several comedies by Aristophanes which involve women protesting. There are some people that have suggested that the behavior of maenads was a reaction to the repression of women and that their meetings were actually protests. Here is a group of Maenads dancing, perhaps protesting: Click here. Question: how the people were ruled and how much they affected by there goverment compare to New Zealand. Answer: In those days people were ruled more by custom and less by law. In Minoan Crete, as with many primitive societies, people were ruled entirely by custom. The Ancient Greeks were fortunate that they were free of many customs. But a person would still be judged based on cutomary behavior. Taxes would be paid by the clan, for example. The government would be reserved for clan to clan relations and affairs of state. Ancient Greece saw the transition from the citizen politician who served for a limited period of time, to the professional politician. The type of government varies from state to state with many examplos of types of government including democracy, oligarchy, aristocracy, tyranny, and even dyarchy The government of Sparta. Answer: Most men wanted to get along with their wives and these women were treated well. Many men feared the goddesses and so they treated women well. But some men wanted to take advantage of anyone weaker than they are. Other men wanted to get back at women who mistreated them when they were young. A good society sets up laws that protects the weaker from misuse of the stronger. Otherwise there is the resort of violence. The ancient Greeks failed the women in a number of ways. They failed to insure that they were well educated, they failed to provide recourse for divorce, and they failed to provide protection for slaves. But compared the the vast majority of other societies, the women of ancient Greece were fairly well off. Click on the Menu directory below for more info. Answer: The Amazons may have helped by fighting to preserve gynocratic societies. Antigone, Cassandra, and Lysistrata are also possibilities. Sappho demonstrated the potential of women. Aspasia was the most notable female politician and leader. The maenads were a reaction to female supression and could be credited in this regard. But the most effective effort occured in the 18th and 19th century when classic literature was the standard for education and women began to be trained in schools. Question: what are some things ancient sparta would say to win the vote against womens rights? Answer: Spartan women were the only women in the world with any rights. Some Greeks said that the ultimate defeat of the Spartans was due to this fact, but it is highly unlikely. Answer: Ostracism. The Assembly could vote voting was done on potsherds called ostra on expelling citizens from the state for a period of ten years. There were able to scratch a name in this material as paper and pencils were not yet available. Answer: They could not vote, they could not enter the olympics, and they could not participate in drama. Answer: Citizen women tended to have more wealth and status. They also obeyed different customs which were less restrictive in spite of the fact that they tended to be confined to their homes. Answer: There was no one government in ancient Greece. Each city-state had its own form of government. And the type of governments varied widely. The politics of ancient Greece were a grand experiment in politics where many different systems were tried and documented. Answer: Attica was the region around ancient Athens. Many of the citizens of Athens enjoyed country homes in Attica. Answer: Roles of women changed not once but many times. But I know of few changes that can be established to the year. Pericles did pass a law about citizenship that affected the role of women and this occurred in BCE. He could do this by immersing it in water just like getting in a bath tub. He was so excited he jumped up and ran out of his house naked. He was part of Magna Gaecia and a citizen of Syracuse. Answer: Every man starts life as the baby of a woman who cares for him. We now know that the early years are very important to the development of the personality later. A mother can easily mistreat a male child in such a way that he will hate women later. If this hate is transferred to other women and they take out their bad feelings on another male baby, the cycle of hate is continued. Most men realize the trials of motherhood and are supportive of their wives. Later it was realized that men had a role in the creative process and men were deified as well. Warlike tribes asserted the dominance of men and made the major deities male instead of female. This paralled an emphasis in society on controlling women and their procreative power. In some societies elaborate rituals were devised for women to facilitate this control. The Greek society avoided these rituals by separating society by sex. Women held separate roles and inhabited separate spaces. This was more a matter of respect rather than hate. As a result men viewed women from afar and some men waxed eloquent on what were considered differences of the sexes. To some what is different is always inferior. But the main women who suffered under this system were not the wives. They usually go what they wanted. But a special class of women were set up to service the sexual needs of the men. These women were not confined, but they were subjected to the sexual demands of the men. Though they were paid for their service they had to perform humiliating acts to gain the acceptance of the men. Even worse were the women slaves who could be killed if they did not cooperate, or even at the whim of their owner. The ancient Greeks did not realize the importance of early childhood education. But there was a tremendous emphasis on education in their society and many received a good education. Women, though not required to go to school, were often caught up in this enthusiasm, and so they seem to have prepared the young children well. The result was that women were not often hated. But societal pressures and example of other society brought regulations which did not support women and attempted to confine them further. Laws were the realm of men and were often not sympathetic to women as a result. Fortunately for the Greek women some of the deities were women whom the men would expect to side with the women. Up through the classical period a man would think twice before he offended a goddess. In ancient Greece most of the hate of women which we read about is just women as viewed from a male perspective. The small remaining amount probably can be explained as men who were mistreated as young children. Answer: There was no law against women in public, but it was a social convention. The socially prominant women felt safer at home. They would send their female slaves on errands outside the home such as fetching water. Hetaera could go anywhere a man went. One way a women could go out in public was to wear a veil. Answer: Their culture, language, and religion were essentially the same. The tragedy of their society is that they both felt they should compete in a military way. Question: What were the difference between Ancient Athenian womens roles in society ant that of Spartan women, in the areas of culture, politics, and religious beliefs and family status. Answer: The status of the Spartan women was the highest in the world at the time. The Athenian wives were not much lower but they seem culturally less important than the hetaerae. With the help of the hetaerae the Athenean men enjoyed one of the highest standards of living ever achieved. Only the hetaerae could influence politics and then only in an advisory capacity. All shared the same religious values. All Greek women benefited because some of the goddesses were very important to the men and it was customary for women to serve the goddesses. Answer: Women were to manage what was in the home while men managed what was outside the home. Answer: The ancient Greeks only voted in an assembly. A jar was passed around and each person scratched their vote on a shell and placed it in the jar. Later the votes were counted by tallying the votes on the shells. Sometime there were two jars and a pebble was placed in the jar labeled with the proper side of the vote. In spite of relegating women to baby producing, women did much more. Society isolated the women to help keep the offspring pure, but in addition to wives, daughters and other relatives, and slaves were also isolated. But there were a variety of tasks assigned to this isolation that no one woman could do. In addition some wives became involved in the work of their husbands. Finally, there was that interesting class of women who were not at all isolated, and followed the men right into their male domains. They were entertainers and sex objects, but also intellectual companions of the men, and not easy to compartmentalize. Question: what are some reasons women in ancient greece should be allowed to have the same rights as men? Answer: The ancient Greeks placed man and women in different worlds. In their world women did not need rights. Few people had rights. On approval, you will either be sent the print copy of the book, or you will receive a further email containing the link to allow you to download your eBook. For more information, visit our exam-copy area. Please note that we currently support the following browsers: Internet Explorer 9, 10 and 11; Chrome latest version, as it auto updates ; Firefox latest version, as it auto updates ; and Safari latest version, as it auto updates. 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Binding: Hardcover Language: english. See all 4 brand new listings. Buy It Now. Add to cart. About this product Product Information The study of women in the ancient Mediterranean world is a topic of growing interest among classicists and ancient historians, and also students of history, sociology and women's studies. This volume is an essential resource supplying a compilation of source material in translation, with contextual commentaries, a glossary of key terms and an annotated bibliography. Texts come from literary, rhetorical, philosophical and legal sources, as well as papyri and inscriptions, and each text will be placed into the cultural mosaic to which it belongs. Ranging geographically from the ancient Near East through Egypt and Greece to Rome and its wider empire, the volume follows a clear chronological structure. Additional Product Features Dewey Edition. Introduction The Archaic Period 1. Where it All Began: Women in Hesiod 2. Aphrodite and Demeter: Goddesses in the Homeric Hymns 3. Women Divine and Mortal in the Homeric Epics 4. The Lived Experiences of Girls and Women 6. Table of Contents. Author Bio. Women's Life in Greece and Rome. A Source Book in Translation. Mary R. It was the wives who supervised the slaves and managed the household responsibilities, such as weaving and cooking. In affluent homes, women had a completely separate area of the house where men were not permitted. In the homes of the poor, separate areas were not available. Poor women often worked outside the home, assisting their husbands at the market or at some other job. Poorer women often went to the market without a male escort. Search History Link

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Foreign Women 8. Prostitutes 9. Girls and Women and Religion Gender Performed on the Athenian Stage Dorian Girls and Women Women and the State in Plato and Aristotle Warrior Women Show More Show Less. New New. No ratings or reviews yet No ratings or reviews yet. Be the first to write a review. Best Selling in Nonfiction See all. Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey Hardcover 5. Save on Nonfiction Trending price is based on prices over last 90 days. What results is a terrifying allegory for a girl leaving the home of her parents for the home of her husband. However, that fear is treated as a fact of life, and something to be overcome, rather than a flaw in the system. Rape is a recurring theme in many other myths as well, though many stories are from later Roman sources and it can be difficult to directly relate them to contemporary Greek society. Theoi has a good compendium of sourced myths for further reading. While the sources on Sparta are spread out, and rarely from within the city- state themselves, they agree that Spartan women were encouraged to be outside the home, and to participate in physical education Fantham et al. However, this did not eliminate instances of what would be considered rape. As Plutarch was writing in the 2nd century CE, the veracity of this specific event is hard to corroborate without sources from inside Sparta itself. If this was the case, however, the kidnapping of women is hardly a consensual method. Even ritualized, the symbolism is, at best, questionable in its motivations. The second Spartan example is more legal in nature. A problem arises with this source as well, as Xenophon was not from Sparta, and his information was certainly second-hand. The evidence, unfortunately, is shaky. That said, it remains unlikely that a single city-state was able to eliminate rape wholesale. As a culture that valued healthy children as a contribution to society, resistance in Sparta could be viewed as deviance. Archilocus, and Miroslav Marcovich. Duke University Libraries. Aristophanes, and Ian Johnston. Carey, C. Cohn-Haft, Louis. Fant, Maureen B. Lefkowitz, trans. Garducci, and Mary R. Lefkowitz, eds. Fantham, Elaine, Helene P. Foley, Natalie B. Kampen, Sarah B. Pomeroy, and H. Alan Shapiro. Women in the Classical World: Image and Text. Maureen B. Fant and Mary R. Once you have successfully made your exam-copy request, you will receive a confirmation email explaining that your request is awaiting approval. On approval, you will either be sent the print copy of the book, or you will receive a further email containing the link to allow you to download your eBook. For more information, visit our exam-copy area. Please note that we currently support the following browsers: Internet Explorer 9, 10 and 11; Chrome latest version, as it auto updates ; Firefox latest version, as it auto updates ; and Safari latest version, as it auto updates. For any other requests or concerns, please contact your Account Manager. This website uses cookies to improve user experience. By using our website you consent to all cookies in accordance with our Cookie Policy. It looks like you are located in Australia or New Zealand Close. Visit the Australia site Continue on UK site. Bloomsbury Sources in Ancient History.

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