Roles And Lives Of Women In Ancient Greece

Women have played important roles throughout history. They have been responsible for the rise and fall of nations, sustaining families, and have been the focal point of worship in ancient religions. Moving forward in history, women's roles have continually changed. Their status as matriarchs changed as the more advanced ancient civilizations rose. The patriarchal societies of ancient Greece and Rome viewed women differently from some societies of past eras. The study of the economic and political status of women, their rights, and their contributions to both these ancient societies reveals how views change throughout history.

In much the same way that a woman was not held responsible for acts of adultery,

Daily life in Athens and Spartans. Daily life in the two city-states was very tough. In Athens, even though it was a democratic society, poverty and financial hardship was high with a distinct contrast between the poor and few wealthy. Citizens, which were only free men born of Athenian parents were the only ones who could participate in politics, however, only the wealthy could run for public office. The poor were given an opportunity to serve for their city-state as a rower in the navy, this was as close as they could get to being a part of the military.

Throughout history, the role of women has been minimal. Many of them were seen as objects, and the Greek woman was no different. Women in ancient Greece basically had no rights. A female’s whole life was centered on her children, husband, and family. The ancient Greek woman was of a lower social status than the males. Greek women played a demeaning role in Greek society and were only seen as wives, mothers, and housekeepers.

Women in Greece were treated very differently from the men, they were thought of as less and weak men. The men controlled the lives of the women and made sure the women felt this way and knew their place. “Married women in Greece had three main jobs raise their children for the sake of Athens, show no weakness than was natural to their sex and avoid gossip.”(J. Coffin & R. Stacey 125).This was thought by all men in Greece but even more so in Athens. As time went on women became more inferior to men the problem did not get any better as Greece went into the dark ages. During the dark ages it is not exactly sure how many resources they Greek people lost, many

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Throughout history, most societies held women in an inferior status compared to that of men. This was often justified as being the natural result of biological differences between the sexes. In many societies, for example, people believed women to be more emotional and less decisive than men. Women were also viewed to be less intelligent and less creative by nature. However, research shows that women and men have the same range of emotional, intellectual, and creative characteristics. Many sociologists and anthropologists maintain that various cultures taught girls to behave according to negative stereotypes (images) of femininity, thus keeping alive the idea that women are naturally inferior.

Women in antiquity did not have an easy life. In an era where man rules, women have limited freedom and few rights. Women’s roles differed little from Rome, Egypt, and China. There were few exceptions: women living in the city of Sparta had some nobility and rose to power, for example, Athena, the goddess of wisdom and military victory. Besides those above, women of that era were limited to an education, mobility, and their roles was housewives and childbearing. Women had little time to involve herself in the political goings on in that era.

The Greeks, as other civilizations, used art to portray each stage their society was going through at certain periods of time. So, how did the ancient greeks portrayed gender roles and social statutes through art? I will prove that through the development of art, the ancient greeks, in specific the Minoans demonstrated the social status and gender roles of their inhabitants, as well as the beginning of the creation of their history.

The film The Breakfast Club (1985) by John Hughes is just one story of the many that were popularized by the teen movie craze of the 1980’s. The comedy follows five high school-aged adolescents as they navigate their way through a day of Saturday detention that is not only atypical but rather an experience which ends up changing the whole perspective on the lives that they have been living. What sets this film apart from other popular high school movies of the time such Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is that the teens portrayed in the film are neither sexualized or over the top, but rather a fairly accurate portrayal of the average American teen at the time. Every character, who each represent a different subculture of the American adolescent, has a deepness and complexity which are heightened by the individual stories they tell. Layers of each teen’s personality are slowly stripped away over the course of the movie until they all come to realize that they all share the same basic problems, they all have the same basic wants and needs, and, most importantly, they are all human. A good portion of the film can be related to the ideas explored by Michel Foucault in his Panopticism, specifically when referring to the role which the school system plays in influencing the children’s social inequality and how it modifies their behavior in general. Additionally, there are a great number of similarities which can be drawn between the principal, Richard

The Greek society was all about Man. The woman was not considered as the citizens, there was a no Tracy of any female scholar during that era. The Female voice was considered totally invaluable. The Things got getting better as and when the years passing by.

In the world of Ancient Greece, a large array of deities were worshipped. Each god had their own forms of identification in which they used to express themselves. This includes things such as personality, style, sexuality, and many other things. One of these forms of expression was gender. The Greeks seemed to focus more on the two typical genders, which are male and female. Some Greek gods seemed to play into certain gender roles, but others portrayed traits of the opposite sex. In this paper, I will be analysing the possibility that the Greeks believed the female and male genders were closely connected and that is why many of the gods are described with blended aspects of gender.

Farming and Food The majority of ancient greek people made they were living off of farming citizens often had land

Ancient Greek society was ahead of its time politically speaking. Indeed they iniciated the concept of democracy. Of course, this democracy did not include everyone in Greece; male citizens dominated society and had full legal status. They were divided in three classes depending on wealth. Females on the other hand had few rights, they were obliged to stay at home and bear children. Once married to a man chosen by their father, women were under the authority of their husband. Divorce were tolerated under three conditions : Repudation by the husband, he did not need justification and had to return the dowry; the wife could leave the family home but it would bring shame on her; finaly the bride's father

Sparta was known in Greek as Sparti. The city lied at the southern end of the central Laconia plain, on the right bank of the Eurotas River. Its population was about 100,000 and it was located in the Laconia region. It had a fairly temperate but very dry climate. Sparta’s also depended on agriculture for their sustenance. They had a mandatory military service. Their system of leadership was Oligarchic and their descendants were mostly the descendants of the Dorian invaders. Athens, on the other hand, was the largest capital city of Greece. Its citizens were about 140,000. The region in which Athens was situated was Attica. The city of Athens had a Mediterranean climate. Athenians depended on trade and agriculture for survival. They did not have a military based system. They practiced Democracy and their descendants were mostly from Ionian descent. (Diffen, n.d).