CLA219H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Pater Familias, Menstruation, Isabel Aboy
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In greece: average age of death for men was 45, men 35, a third of all babies would be dead in a single year. Females just cost money: to feed, bring up, provide dowry, aristotle says there should be a law forbidding the bringing up of disabled children, high mortality between child-bearing age. Growing up as a girl in ancient greece: quite often girls were less well-nourished than boys. Perhaps the reason they died more often as children because they didn"t get the same food as boys: not the same for egypt or sparta. In roman aristocracy their girls might also be educated in writing, reading and philosophy, but perhaps not on the same level as boys. Women in greece: menstruation begins between 13-15, later, probably because malnourished, once you have your first period you are a woman - whereas it takes longer and more com- plicated to become a man.
