Women in Ancient Greece

1. How did women's roles in society differ from Athens and Sparta?
Well there are many ways that the women from Athens and Sparta differ, but they all come down to one thing, the women in Sparta have a lot more freedom. The women in Athens are just one step above slaves. Women in Athens were split into groups, the slave women, Athenian citizen woman, and the highest of respect, the Hetaerea, the Hetaerea women were much like the china Geisha.
Unlike the women in Athens, women in Sparta were given a good education, owned much of the land and were respected by their husbands. I didn't like that the women in Athens were treated so poorly. We are all humans and I think that all humans should be treated the same and not like slaves.

2. If the Greeks are considered so advanced, so culturally elite, why do you believe gender equality (equality between men and women) was not established?
Well I cant figure out why women in all of Greece were treated so badly. All society believed that the only job that women had was to basically have have children and to raise them. Even though the women in Sparta were treated a lot better than their "sisters in Athens", men would still lend their wives to other men to produce a child. So as you can see women were not treated with respect. Men thought of them more of an object rather than a companion.

3. Based on your understanding of women in Ancient Greek society, how do you think women were depicted by artists at this time?
Well since all women in Greece are perceived as not doing anything but help populate the land, I think that all the paintings and sculpture s will have the women either naked or with a baby. This is all just all what I got from the reading. I personally don't agree with anything that they believed in. I think that all men and women need to be treated the same and not treated like objects.