CLA230H1 Lecture 2: CLA230-Week 2 Readings- Ch 3+4+5.docx
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Cla230h1s the greeks history, culture and society textbook notes. M 1/13 chapter 3 the greeks at home. If land was the economic foundation of ancient greece, the oikos. House/family was its social foundation the oikos included slaves, close relations, and the house and its contents, but the basic oikos was still a monogamous union of man and woman to produce and rear legitimate children. A wife, after marriage, was expected to obey her husband, except within the oikos, where she was responsible for preparing food, rearing children, and producing cloth. Women owned little to no real estate, although laws varied from polis to polis. In most city-states the laws limited women to trivial financial transactions and denied them access to the legal system, which was all male. Female poet sappho, lived around 600 bc. The tone of her poetry is similar to that of her male contemporaries and only a few lines of her work actually have survived.
