Sunday, September 28, 2008
Women in Rome
It is amazing to me how the Romans almost disregarded the women in their society in my opinion. Sure they let them have more freedom than the US did 100 or so years ago but it was because they were basically ignored in Rome's laws and constitution. They had the freedom to do mostly what they wanted. They were the ones left in the cities when the men were gone for years fighting the many wars for Rome. They were a big part of how successful the society would be and then left without attention from the same nation they were trying to keep working like a well oiled machine. When the women in the US were not thought of in the laws of the country they thought of the same way in a social way. It was parallel unlike the Roman society.
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The women in the US were always allowed to work. They may not have had a decent working wage but they worked none the less. Whereas the women in Athens and in Roman were not allowed to work unless they were prostitutes or concubines. The women were not allowed to be seen out in public without the permission of their husband for father
Woman in Sparta actually had the most freedom than woman in other Greek societies. Since the men spent most of the time at the barracks, the woman had much more freedom to come and go as they pleased.
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