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Women in Ancient Greece

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To read the history of ancient Greece as it has been written for centuries is to go into a thoroughly male world. This book, a comprehensive history of women in the Archaic and Classical Ages, completes our picture of ancient Greek society.

In large part excluded from any public role, the women of ancient Greece nonetheless appear in quite a lot of guises in the art and writing of the period, and in legal documents. These representations, in Sue Blundell’s analysis, reveal a great deal about women’s daily experience in addition to their legal and economic position–and how they were regarded by men. Here are women as portrayed in Homer, in Greek lyric poetry, and by the playwrights; the female nature as depicted in medical writings and by Aristotle; representations of women in sculpture and vase paintings. That is evidence filtered through a male view: Sappho is the only female author of antiquity much of whose work survives. Yet these sources and others such as regulations and law court speeches reveal a great deal about women’s lives and about their status as defined by law and by custom.

By examining the roles that men assigned to women, the ideals they constructed for them, and the anxieties they expressed about them, Blundell sheds light at the cultural dynamics of a male-dominated society. Vigorous and richly illustrated, her work offers a fresh have a look at women in the ancient world.

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