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{Dоwnlоаd/Rеаd PDF Bооk} Women in Ancient Greece: A WOMEN IN ANCIENT GREECE: A SOURCEBOOK PDF, EPUB, EBOOK 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 Click here for more details Telegraph bookshop. Description 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. Add to Basket. Women in Ancient Rome. Women in Ancient Greece. Food and Drink in Antiquity: A Rome: A Sourcebook on the Ancient City. Christianity in the Later Roman Empire Be the first to ask a question about Women in Ancient Greece. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Sep 06, Pilar rated it it was amazing Shelves: women-writers , essay-studies , ancient-greece , feminist , five-stars. A good and well documented reference book. May 19, Debby rated it it was amazing. I love source books. This one had great intros to the primary source materials and wasn't too heavy on the interpretations, letting the ancients speak for themselves. An excellent companion to any study of women in antiquity, and a very enjoyable stand-alone for the curious. Jun 04, Carolyn Kost rated it it was amazing Shelves: herstory-and-wimmin. This is a positively riveting sourcebook, an extensive and illuminating--but not annotated at length-- collection of texts on womens roles and lives in ancient Greece. MacLachlan divides the book into three sections by period: Archaic, Classical, and post-Classical [Hellenistic], provides a list of further reading at the end of each chapter, and presents the realities of womens lives, as well as the values reflected and informed in the literary texts. The first section draws largely upon the work of Hesiod, Homeric hymns, and melic and lyric poets, especially Sappho. 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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.
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