The Terrible Lives of Ancient Greek Women
Women in ancient Greece — at the brink of insanity.
No word in the English language could sum up what life was like for women in Ancient Greece. As the tides of unrelenting blue water, their reality was a wave of which city they called home, what period they lived in, and how rich their husbands were; they were the tides, crashing against challenging waters.
There was no idea of an ideal woman. Pandora’s curse was basically animals. Maybe one was ideal if they were the physical embodiment of Penelope, wife of Odysseus, peacefully and faithfully, waiting 20 years, confined to her home, sewing, awaiting her husband, away from the advances of indigenous males.
So, boredom, servitude, and isolation were the way to go in Ancient Greece.
Rights! Sounds lovely, doesn’t it?
Ancient Greece really is a tell-all tale of democracy; however, the women would beg to differ. That acclaimed institution overtly outcast them outside of Sparta. The word rights, for women, itself felt wrong. It was perhaps the fear that women would flee their oppression and truly live the moment they escaped. Or maybe, it was just the excitement of marrying husbands twice their age, at the ripe age of 13! A woman governing herself; that would be…
