CLSA 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Hetaira, Gyne, Childbirth
30 Jul 2016
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Some sources illustrate the ideal greek woman as submissive,chaste, and silent. Other sources imply that women were likely to behave in ways that contrasted with this ideal. The less you say about women the better it is. The woman was the master of the oikos household . Women of good birth spent their lives in the women"s quarters . Only rarely did women learn how to read and write. Spinning the wool, making cloths, and caring for the house: keep women out of sight when people come over. Marriage: arranged between families, based on political and economical grounds. Dowry: the family provided the woman with dowry. The bride was in her teens and was a parthenos, virgin. : for this reason greek girls were married off as soon as possible after the first menstruation, the groom traveled to the bride"s home in a cart.
