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During the past decades, the position of women in Greek society has changed dramatically. Efharis Petridou was the first female lawyer in Greece; in 1925 she joined the Athens Bar Association. [ 31 ][ 32 ] The women of Greece won the right to vote in 1952. In 1955, women were first allowed to become judges in Greece.
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 ...
In Ancient Sparta, the subordination of private interests and personal happiness to the good of the public was strongly encouraged by the laws of the city.One example of the legal importance of marriage can be found in the laws of Lycurgus of Sparta, which required that criminal proceedings be taken against those who married too late (graphe opsigamiou) [5] or unsuitably (graphe kakogamiou ...
The Grave Stele of Hegeso, most likely sculpted by Callimachus, is renowned as one of the finest Attic grave stelae surviving (mostly intact) today. Dated from c. 410 – c. 400 BCE, [1] it is made entirely of Pentelic marble. It stands 1.49m high and 0.92m wide, in the form of a naiskos, with pilasters and a pediment featuring palmette acroteria.
Oikos (Ancient Greek: οἶκος (pronunciation oi•kos [a]; plural: οἶκοι) was, in Ancient Greece, two related but distinct concepts: the family and the family's house. [b] Its meaning shifted even within texts. [1] The oikos was the basic unit of society in most Greek city-states. For regular Attic usage within the context of families ...
Sparta[1]was a prominent city-statein Laconiain ancient Greece. In antiquity, the city-state was known as Lacedaemon(Λακεδαίμων, Lakedaímōn), while the name Sparta referred to its main settlement on the banks of the Eurotas Riverin the Eurotas valleyof Laconia, in south-eastern Peloponnese.[2]
Gorgo, Queen of Sparta. Gorgo (/ ˈɡɔːrɡoʊ /; Greek: Γοργώ [ɡorɡɔ͜ɔ́]; fl. 480 BC) was a Spartan woman and wife to King Leonidas I (r. 489–480 BC). She was the daughter and the only known child of Cleomenes I, Leonidas' half-brother and King of Sparta (r. 520–490 BC). [ 1 ] Gorgo was also the mother of King Pleistarchus, her ...
Etruscan women were politically important, and dominant in family and social life. Their status in Etruscan civilizationdiffered from their Greek and the Roman peers, who were considered to be marginal and secondary in relation to men. [1] Etruscan woman, painted terracottastatue, 1st century BC, found at Chiusi, preserved in the Badisches ...