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The representation of women in Athenian tragedy was performed exclusively by men and it is likely (although the evidence is not conclusive) that it was performed solely for men as well. [1] The question whether or not women were admitted at theatre is widely contested and tends to polarise fronts. [ 2 ]
The economic power of Athenian women was legally constrained. Historians have traditionally considered that ancient Greek women, particularly in Classical Athens, lacked economic influence. [146] Athenian women were forbidden from entering a contract worth more than a medimnos of barley, enough to feed an average family for six days. [147]
Greek tragedy (Ancient Greek: τραγῳδία, romanized: tragōidía) is one of the three principal theatrical genres from Ancient Greece and Greek-inhabited Anatolia, along with comedy and the satyr play. It reached its most significant form in Athens in the 5th century BC, the works of which are sometimes called Attic tragedy.
Aspasia (/ æ ˈ s p eɪ ʒ (i) ə,-z i ə,-ʃ ə /; [2] Ancient Greek: Ἀσπασία Greek:; c. 470 – after 428 BC [a]) was a metic woman in Classical Athens. Born in Miletus , she moved to Athens and began a relationship with the statesman Pericles , with whom she had a son named Pericles the Younger .
Women, as represented by Calonice, are sly hedonists in need of firm guidance and direction. In contrast, Lysistrata is portrayed to be an extraordinary woman with a large sense of individual and social responsibility. She has convened a meeting of women from various Greek city-states that are at war with each other. Soon after she confides in ...
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In Classical Athens, there was no exact equivalent of the English term "adultery", but the similar moicheia (Ancient Greek: μοιχεία) was a criminal offence often translated as adultery by scholars. Athenian moicheia was restricted to illicit sex with free women, and so men could legally have extra-marital sex with slaves and prostitutes.