Athens

Man

 

as the optimally human

 

 

 

 

v.

 

woman

 

as deity

 

 

Athena                                               Nike

 

As respectable female citizen

Family Life

 

 

 

But also

2. freedwoman

3. slave

Both 2 and 3 figured in prostitution

 

 

 

or as monsters, e.g. Amazons

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Contrast Athens with Sparta

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girls running with Chiton open on one side

 

 

See also

 

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/classes/JKp.html

http://www1.hollins.edu/faculty/saloweyca/Athenian%20Woman/homepage/homepage.htm

 

http://www.stoa.org/diotima/anthology/wlgr/wlgr-greeklegal88.shtml

http://www.stoa.org/diotima/anthology/wlgr/wlgr-greeklegal90.shtml

 

 

http://people.uncw.edu/deagona/amazons/spartanwomen2.htm

http://www.stoa.org/diotima/anthology/wlgr/wlgr-greeklegal97.shtml

http://www.stoa.org/diotima/anthology/wlgr/wlgr-greeklegal98.shtml

http://www.stoa.org/diotima/anthology/wlgr/wlgr-greeklegal99.shtml