Treatment of Women in Ancient Literature

Women are often the focus of ancient literary works. When Sarah Pomeroy introduced her goddess, prostitute, wife, slave of text, she wrote that "women are almost everywhere in classical literature but the author's prejudice often distorts information" ( x). In the literature it is clear that the social role of women is more restricted than the role of men. Since most of the early literature was written by men, nausea is often contaminated. Female characters are often given the negative nature of fraud, temptation, egoism, temptation.

The treatment of women has become a problem for centuries. In ancient civilization, women were thought of as underlying creatures. In ancient Greece women had no social, political or economic importance. In the social aspect, women are regarded, respected and respected as male junior high schools. According to the culture of ancient Greece, women can not be self-sustained, they depend entirely on the life of men. The role of women in ancient Greek society is to lay birth, prepare meals, and take care of their families. However, one person fulfilled the "important" duty of Greek society. These responsibilities include political propaganda, fighting battle, and protecting families. In ancient Greece feminism was unheard of. Women live with fear of dialogue with men and do not dare to contradict social methods. Women are concerned about physical abuse, anger of the gods, and sometimes even death.

The cultural portrayal of women in ancient Greek myths is also a symbol and influence of the treatment and status of Greek women in society. Men are responsible and women have never been considered equivalent to men, even women of similar status. To a certain extent, this reality is due to the teaching taught through educational literature. If Xenophon's Oeconomicus is not a blatant country who wishes to isolate elite women from male members of the Greek family members, it is necessary to treat them in a non-personal way to shape the wife into a unique and accurate specification I strongly suggest that. Hesiod's letter to Perse's in his work and day to day is not worth noting if he is not trying to lead Greeks to possess the property of agricultural technology. Hesiod's explanation of the collapse of Pandora as a human means to alert the man of the danger of allowing a woman to leave the isolation.