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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 ).
Such archaeological evidence reveals valuable data not just about the individual woman herself, but also about women's history in ancient regions more generally. As many scholars have noted, archaeology provides an important corrective because ancient literary sources often emphasized elite women, were written by male authors, or the women were ...
Women are frequently depicted as "sexual objects" in ancient Greek pottery, thus providing context for the sexual culture of Ancient Greece. [70] 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 ...
Ancient Greece (Ancient Greek: Ἑλλάς, romanized: Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilisation, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity (c. 600 AD), that comprised a loose collection of culturally and linguistically related city-states and communities.
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According to Shelley Haley, Pomeroy's work "legitimized the study of Greek and Roman women in ancient times". [21] However, classics has been characterised as a "notoriously conservative" field, [21] and initially women's history was slow to be adopted: from 1970 to 1985, only a few articles on ancient women were published in major journals. [22]
View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions Read; Edit; View history; General ... Ancient Greek women (27 C, 10 P) M. Women in Greek mythology (25 C ...
Sphendone (σφενδόνη) was a fastening for the hair used by the Greek women. [99] Tainia was a headband, ribbon, or fillet. Kekryphalos (κεκρύφαλος) was a Hairnet [100] and Sakkos (σάκκος) a hair sack/cap used by the Greek women. [100] Diadema (διάδημα), a fillet which was the emblem of sovereignty. [101]