This brilliant evocation of how women lived in ancient Greece describes every aspect of their lives, including their religious, familial and domestic duties, their economic importance, and their social, moral, and legal status as wives, cohabitees or slaves. Broule examines their sexual roles, what the status of a woman's body was and what her own and others' attitudes were likely to be towards it -all in the context of the development and achievements of Greek civilization.
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This brilliant evocation of how women lived in ancient Greece describes every aspect of their lives, including their religious, familial and domestic duties, their economic importance, and their social, moral, and legal status as wives, cohabitees or slaves. Broule examines their sexual roles, what the status of a woman's body was and what her own and others' attitudes were likely to be towards it -all in the context of the development and achievements of Greek civilization.
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