Early treatment of women in Athenian society can be best described as servitude. Women were treated differently from city to city but the basic premise of that treatment never changed. A woman’s main purpose was to establish a bloodline that could carry on the husbands name and give the proper last rites to the husband after his death. However, it was still possible for women to form life long bonds with their husbands and …showed first 75 words of 2048 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2048 total…to darkness” (Everyday Life in Ancient Greece, pg. 87). Bibliography Everyday Life in Ancient Greece; C.E. Robinson. 1933. Pages 81-87. The Family, Women and Death; Sally Humphreys. 1983. Pages 33-79. Daily Life in Greece; Robert Flaceliere. 1959. Pages 55-83. The Greek World; Edited by Anton Powell. 1995. Pages 199-273. History of the Ancient World www.ancientsites.com/ Ancient Greece http://eawc.evansville.edu/grpage.htm Photo by Images of Ancient Greece and Rome http://wings.buffalo.edu/Aandl/Maecenas/