Conclusion

    If you have ever read any Greek mythology, you can tell that in those stories women has a very big part in it. Either they are "damsels in distress", brave heroines, an excellent athlete, or even a women saving her kingdom while her husband is away. But is the real life for ancient Greek women like that? The answer is no, these stories are just made up in the classical era of Greece's history, real life for these women is nothing like it. Those stories are made in order to explain some reasons why the Earth is like this or just to make Greece look very superior with its heroes saving princesses. 

    Ancient Greek women is kept from doing a lot of things that women today could do. When a family has a baby girl, the normal thing for them to do is to abandon the baby somewhere and let it die, unless it was a soft hearted family, that's what happens to most girl babies. Women were treated almost like beasts of burden to their husbands, only for the use of keeping together a household and bearing children. Other than that, there weren't much the women could do. They had barely any rights, a simple word of a man could over rule them. The only times that a woman was known to walk in front of a male was during a funeral procession, and that's it. They were owned by their father before marriage and their husband afterwards. And all their life they were kept within their households except going out for religious ceremonies. And in the home of their husband, a woman is kept out of the sight of other male, in order to protect her honor. The Greek women were divided into 3 different classes, the first class is the wives class, the second is the concubine class, and the third class is the hetaerae class. There are different expectations for each class, and each class of women is treated differently. Out of the three classes the wives class is most respectable. But in the hetaerae class', the women are educated, while the wives are not. The concubine class is just another word for prostitutes at that time, and they were no better than dirt, and treated horribly for they have no honor.

    From dawn to dusk the wives work, only to make her household a better place, and to please her husband. But rarely do they even see their husbands. The rich men, each day discuss politics with other men at meeting places, or they go on trading voyages that takes up to months. The poorer men work day in and day out at their fields to harvest food that provides for the family, though sometimes the women works side by side with their husband on the field. Even at other occasions, the men go to brothels leaving their wives at home and enjoy themselves with concubines. While the men do this, the women have no say in their actions, so as the time goes on they stop caring if their husband has a mistress or not. Ancient Greek women had basically no rights, and a lot of responsibilities, but they lived by what they were born to do. It's amazing knowing that none of them ever rebelled, none of them complained about this unfairness.