Unmarried Women: Athens Flashcards
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Where Athenian women educated ?
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They lacked formal education, stayed at home and their mothers taught them how to read, in wealthier families girls learnt how to sing and play the lyre
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What distinguished married and unmarried women ?
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They had long hair and dress
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Did young girls have sheltered lives ?
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No before they were married, some appeared in public as they participated in religious tasks such as spending as long as a year worshipping Artemis at Brauron. Others undertake duties such as the ‘arrhephoroi’ and performed secret rites to Aphrodite
