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According to Shelley Haley, Pomeroy's work "legitimized the study of Greek and Roman women in ancient times". [21] However, classics has been characterised as a "notoriously conservative" field, [21] and initially women's history was slow to be adopted: from 1970 to 1985, only a few articles on ancient women were published in major journals. [22]
The status and characteristics of ancient and modern-day women in Greece evolved from events that occurred in Greek history. In Michael Scott's article, "The Rise of Women in Ancient Greece" ( History Today ), the place of women and their achievements in Ancient Greece was best described by Thucidydes in this quotation: "The greatest glory [for ...
Spartan women were famous in ancient Greece for seemingly having more freedom than women elsewhere in the Greek world. To contemporaries outside of Sparta, Spartan women had a reputation for promiscuity and controlling their husbands. Spartan women could legally own and inherit property, and they were usually better educated than their Athenian ...
Public memorials, private virtues: women on classical Athenian grave monuments. Mortality, 8(1), 20-35. Carpenter, R. (1950). Tradition and invention in Attic reliefs. American Journal of Archaeology, 54(4), 323-336. Closterman, W.E. (2007). Family ideology and family history: the function of funerary markers in Classical Attic peribolos tombs.
Axis occupation (Collaborationist regime, Free Greece) (1941-1944) Civil War ... This template shows topics to do with the History of Greece.== See also ==
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Greek-speaking women who lived during the time of the Roman Empire should be called Greek if they wrote in Greek, but they may also be categorised under Ancient Roman women writers as well as Ancient Greek women writers. Many Hellenistic Greek women writers will have been ethnic Greeks, but also Roman peregrinae and in some cases, Roman ...
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