HIS 275 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Euripides, Thesmophoria, Proletariat
6 May 2019
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Seclusion, separation, and the status of women in classical athens. Political and social status of athenian women was very low during the classical period. Relegated to the ranks of slaves and children. Low status was marked by their confinement to their homes, their exclusion from social, public, and economic life. Often mistaken that women did not have their own public, political, and economic sphere. The typical male-female role divisions in classical athens were typical of traditional. Married women seldom crossed the threshold of their own front door. Adolescent girls were not allowed to be seen at all - and had to be away from male members of the family. Understandings of gender and marital and parental status is largely determined by the information researchers have access to. Norms and cultural ideas are often conveyed to portray a specific point of view that may not be entirely accurate.
