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14 cze 2021 · One of the most telling details regarding the status of females in Athens and Sparta is noted by scholar Paul Cartledge: Heiresses in Sparta – that is, daughters without legitimate brothers of the same father – were called patrouchoi , which means literally 'holders of the patrimony', whereas in Athens they were called epikleroi , which ...
Spartan women were famous in ancient Greece for seemingly having more freedom than women elsewhere in the Greek world. To contemporaries outside of Sparta, Spartan women had a reputation for promiscuity and controlling their husbands.
While women were being named and shamed in Athens, winning Olympic victories in Sparta and cursing to their heart’s content in mainland Greece, across the Aegean sea, on the coast of Asia Minor (western Turkey), some women were in positions of actual power.
27 lip 2016 · Each year in Athens, four young women were selected to serve the priestess of Athena Polias and weave the sacred peplos robe which would adorn the cult statue of the goddess. Perhaps the most famous female religious role was the aged Pythia oracle at Delphi who interpreted the proclamations of Apollo .
21 wrz 2021 · Spartan women were part of the political community, and they had the same rights as men. The city-state’s political system was a curious one, and it had two royal families and two queens. Now, these queens did not have real formal political power, but they had enormous influence.
12 lis 2009 · Although Spartan women were not active in the military, they were educated and enjoyed more status and freedom than other Greek women. Sparta, also known as Lacedaemon, was an ancient Greek...
In Athens, for the most part, women were legal nonentities whom the Greek male excluded from any participation in the political or intellectual life of the city.
