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The primary role of free women in classical Athens was to marry and bear children. [46] The emphasis on marriage as a way to perpetuate the family through childbearing had changed from archaic Athens, when (at least amongst the powerful) marriages were as much about making beneficial connections as they were about perpetuating the family. [51]
[16] [17] Additionally, it was illegal at the time, for citizens of Athens to marry non-Athens people. If caught, non-Athens women were oftentimes sold into slavery as punishment, and men were fined heavily. In more severe circumstances, disenfranchisement was another punishment. [18] Classical Athens idealized extreme female seclusion. [19]
Greece still has one of the highest gender pay gaps in Europe. Efharis Petridou was the first female lawyer in Greece; in 1925 she joined the Athens Bar Association. [22] [23] In 1955, women were first allowed to become judges in Greece. [22] According to data by UNICEF, 52% of the Greek population is made
Agnodice is not generally considered a historical figure, but her legend has influenced discussions about gender roles in medical professions. According to Hyginus, Agnodice studied medicine under the famous physician Herophilus. Because Athenian laws prohibited women from practicing medicine, Agnodice disguised herself as a man to work as a ...
Euripides (c. 480 – c. 406 BC) is one of the authors of classical Greece who took a particular interest in the condition of women within the Greek world. In a predominantly patriarchal society, he undertook, through his works, to explore and sometimes challenge the injustices faced by women and certain social or moral norms concerning them.
Unlike in Athens, where state ideology held that men were in charge of the household, Sue Blundell argues that in Sparta it is likely that women's control of the domestic sphere was accepted, and possibly even encouraged, by the state. [33] According to Spartan ideology, the primary role of adult women was to bear and raise healthy children.
However Xenophon reflects the Greek fear of these 'others', highlighting their irrationality, religious fervour and sexual passion. [9] Aristotle went further, stating that women were deformed, incomplete males, designed to be subservient to men. [10]
Bronze statue of a Greek actor, 150–100 BC. The half-mask over the eyes and nose identifies the figure as an actor. He wears a man's conical cap but female garments, following the Greek custom of men playing the roles of women. Later, slave women were brought in to play minor female characters and in comedy as well.