Women_of_Ancient_Greece

Women of Ancient Greece In today’s society, rights between men and women are as close to equal as they have ever been. The roles of men and women in society have become intermingled in every aspect. Through work, leisure, family, political, and religious issues, both men and women take part. This equality was a difficult and timely journey for women, and it is gut wrenching to consider women’s non-existent rights of ancient times. However, a possible alteration to the common view of women’s lives in ancient Greece may be disproved according to an article by Christine Mitchell Havelock. The evidence brought forth is strong and relevant to the argument, but the overall impact on the conception of a woman’s life in ancient Greece is hardly altered. Women of ancient Greece may not have been as detested and rigorously forbidden in the way that ancient male-dominated “literary and legal sources” suggest. The argument could perhaps be more specifically defined by saying that the woman played a significant role in many parts of the funerary services of deceased loved ones, as well as an active part in the domestic affairs of the home. This argument is successfully supported by Havelock’s evidence ancient, women, woman, times, society, men, greek, argument, women’s, part, life, idea, havelock, greece, evidence, both, been, woman’s, significant, roles, role, relevant, philosophers, one, negative, ideas, funerary, ceremonies, ability, writers, world, widely, weight, way, view