men + women in ancient greece

Question 1

What would the men be the head of?

Answer 1

Oikos (household)

Question 2

How would the men help keep Greeks secure?

Answer 2

Giving his opinion in assembly + serving as a soldier

Question 3

What is an example of an ideal Greek male?

Answer 3

Achilles - ‘speaker of words, doer of deeds’

Question 4

What were women expected to be?

Answer 4

Fertile

Question 5

What werent women allowed to do?

Answer 5

Barely allowed to go outside

Question 6

Where were the womens quarters?

Answer 6

Top/back of the house; make it harder to break in

Question 7

What do Athenian vases show of women?

Answer 7

Show them at the stages of a man’s life: birth, marriage, war + mourning death

Question 8

When could real women only leave the house?

Answer 8

Religious festivals

Question 9

What would the father of the bride say?

Answer 9

“I give you this woman for the ploughing of legitimate children”

Question 10

What ideal woman does the Odyssey show?

Answer 10

Penelope - faithful wife; gave birth to male heir; controlled the majority of her slaves + wove

Question 11

What does the grave stele show?

Answer 11

Hegeso, beautiful; richly dressed
Choosing from hr jewellery box offered by a slave girl

Question 12

What was thought about the beauty of women?

Answer 12

The beauty of women was important but tricky
Helen + Pandora were beautiful
Desired + feared trait

Question 13

What was thought about sexuality of women?

Answer 13

Powerful; increased anxiety men had that women were weak minded + too sexual

Question 14

What does King say about Athenian women?

Answer 14

“The Greek word for woman (gyne) is the same for wife”

Question 15

What is shown in Lysistrata?

Answer 15

Women of Athens + Sparta struggle not to have sex to stop the war

Question 16

What was domestic life like for a man?

Answer 16

Power in the oikos
Divorce wasn’t hard; surrender dowry + choose if he was to keep his kids

Question 17

What was marriage like for an Athenian woman?

Answer 17

Divorce: needed father/guardian to take her back + provide again

Question 18

What did women do in the Oikos?

Answer 18

Watched by the husband; controlling income, organising slaves, working wool + raising children

Question 19

What were women legal property of?

Answer 19

A man: husband, father, brother

Question 20

What was expected of women in terms of heirs?

Answer 20

Produce male heir despite health risks from repeated pregnancies
Unwanted babies (girls) may’ve been exposed/killed

Question 21

What was thought about intercourse for women?

Answer 21

Suggests couples should have sex 3x/month to stop woman’s womb travelling around her body
If a womb wandered too long, it reaches her brain + drives her mad

Question 22

Who was Pericles?

Answer 22

Athenian general + politician

Question 23

What was a pederastic relationship?

Answer 23

A boy in late teens begins sexual experience w a man in gymnasium
Older man (erastes) plays sig role in boy’s (eromanos) upbringing

Question 24

What happened w Alcibiades + his wife?

Answer 24

She tried to divorce him bc of his relationships w prostitutes; she was picked up by the court + carried home

Question 25

What was women’s freedom in the house like?

Answer 25

An intruder would have to go through the man’s quarter (ground flour) to get to the woman (at the back)

Question 26

Adultery?

Answer 26

Legal obligation for a man to divorce his wife if she committed adultery (sometimes including rape)
If he didn’t he’d be deprived of his citizen rights

Question 27

Who points out that the Greek word for woman is the same as for wife?

Answer 27

King