Roles and responsibilities
Were encouraged to pursue… outside of the husband in order to produce babies.
Sexual relations/affairs/polyandry.
The statue of a woman engaging in a sport…
Running girl
The Spartans didn’t…
Write their history
The poet from the isle of Lesbos…
Sapho
Possessed no…
Rights/political rights
Women were encouraged to exercise in order to…
Produce healthy babies
The writings of this philosopher…
Aristotle
The people who were writing the history were biased because…
They were Athenian men
Who said this: “Because we are the only women that are mothers of men.”
Gorgo
Considered…
Minors
Domestic work was considered for the…
Helots
The writings of the first historian…
Herodotus
19th century writers have a skewed perspective, giving them a … as to what Sparta looked like.
Bias
The queen of Macedonia and mother of Alexander the Great…
Olympias
Made for the … life in the home
Private
The close proximity to… increased their status.
Religion
The book written by Plutarch that details a lot of the reforms related to women…
The Life of Lycurgus
The … created by Athenian writers that puts Sparta in a certain light.
Mirage/Spartan Mirage/prism
The great female philosopher and teacher who even influenced Aristotle…
Aspasia
The … were unique because they possessed a level of education so they could better entertain the men.
Hetaires
They had control over the … when the husband was away, presenting a certain level of economic power
The estate
Who wrote this: “Inscribing the name of the dead on the tombstone was not permitted unless it was a man who died in battle or a woman who had died in hieron [sacred office]”
Plutarch
The existence of these collections of artefacts challenge the written belief that women could not alter their appearance in any way…
Pins, mirrors, broaches.
The queen of Greek cities: Halicarnassus, Cos, Nisyrus, and Calymnos at the beginning of the Persian wars…
Artemisia I
The wife of Pericles, who gained fame, suggesting that despite belonging to a certain group they weren’t marginliased…
Aspasia