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The study of the lives of women in classical Athens has been a significant part of classical scholarship since the 1970s. The knowledge of Athenian women's lives comes from a variety of ancient sources. Much of it is literary evidence, primarily from tragedy, comedy, and oratory; supplemented with archaeological sources such as epigraphy and ...
Gorgo, Queen of Sparta and wife of Leonidas, as quoted by Plutarch 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. Spartan women could legally own and inherit property, and they were usually better educated ...
Phryne ( / ˈfraɪni /; Ancient Greek: Φρύνη, romanized : Phrū́nē, c. 371 BC – after 316 BC) was an ancient Greek hetaira (courtesan). Born Mnesarete, she was from Thespiae in Boeotia, but seems to have lived most of her life in Athens, where she became one of the wealthiest women in Greece. Phryne is best known for her trial for ...
The Venus de Milo or Aphrodite of Melos[ b] is an ancient Greek marble sculpture that was created during the Hellenistic period. Its exact dating is uncertain, but the modern consensus places it in the 2nd century BC, perhaps between 160 and 110 BC. It was rediscovered in 1820 on the island of Milos, Greece, and has been displayed at the Louvre ...
Women are frequently depicted as "sexual objects" in ancient Greek pottery, thus providing context for the sexual culture of Ancient Greece. [29] A majority of vase scenes portray women inside their houses. A common presence of columns suggests that women spent much of their time in the courtyard of the house. The courtyard was the one place ...
Clothing in ancient Greece refers to clothing starting from the Aegean bronze age (3000 BCE) to the Hellenistic period (31 BCE). [ 1] Clothing in ancient Greece included a wide variety of styles but primarily consisted of the chiton, peplos, himation, and chlamys. [ 2] Ancient Greek civilians typically wore two pieces of clothing draped about ...
Himation. Statues at the "House of Cleopatra" in Delos, Greece. Man and woman wearing the himation. A himation ( / hɪˈmætiˌɒn / hə-MAT-ee-un, [ 1] Ancient Greek: ἱμάτιον) was a type of clothing, a mantle or wrap worn by ancient Greek men and women from the Archaic period through the Hellenistic period ( c. 750–30 BC). [ 2]
New categories by gender may be deleted if they do not meet the tests set out in that guideline. This includes women of Ancient Greece who were notable chiefly for the men they married, or the men they were ancestors of. For example, Hipparete (wife of Alcibiades) or Agariste of Sicyon (ancestor of Alcibiades and Pericles ).