Roles and responsibilities
Evidence
Limitations
Famous women
Athenian women
100

Were encouraged to pursue… outside of the husband in order to produce babies.

Sexual relations/affairs/polyandry.

100

The statue of a woman engaging in a sport…

Running girl

100

The Spartans didn’t…

Write their history

100

The poet from the isle of Lesbos…

Sapho

100

Possessed no…

Rights/political rights

200

Women were encouraged to exercise in order to…

Produce healthy babies

200

The writings of this philosopher…

Aristotle

200

The people who were writing the history were biased because…

They were Athenian men

200

Who said this: “Because we are the only women that are mothers of men.”

Gorgo

200

Considered…

Minors 

300

Domestic work was considered for the…

Helots

300

The writings of the first historian…

Herodotus

300

19th century writers have a skewed perspective, giving them a … as to what Sparta looked like.

Bias

300

The queen of Macedonia and mother of Alexander the Great…

Olympias 

300

Made for the … life in the home

Private

400

The close proximity to… increased their status.

Religion 

400

The book written by Plutarch that details a lot of the reforms related to women…

The Life of Lycurgus

400

The … created by Athenian writers that puts Sparta in a certain light.

Mirage/Spartan Mirage/prism

400

The great female philosopher and teacher who even influenced Aristotle…

Aspasia

400

The … were unique because they possessed a level of education so they could better entertain the men.

Hetaires

500

They had control over the … when the husband was away, presenting a certain level of economic power

The estate

500

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

500

The existence of these collections of artefacts challenge the written belief that women could not alter their appearance in any way…

Pins, mirrors, broaches.

500

The queen of Greek cities: Halicarnassus, Cos, Nisyrus, and Calymnos at the beginning of the Persian wars…

Artemisia I

500

The wife of Pericles, who gained fame, suggesting that despite belonging to a certain group they weren’t marginliased…

Aspasia