How were women considered differently in the Greek and Etruscan society? What freedoms or restrictions did they have in these societies?
What will be an ideal response?
A. Women in Greek society
1. women excluded from society
2. women were married young and did not control the family
3. wives and daughters did not normally inherit property
4. rarely appeared in public except as mourners or as priestesses
5. art only shows women with other women
6. function was to serve the community by bearing and raising children and thereby increasing manpower for production and war
7. literature almost always presented women as despicable creatures
8. women who were intellectually superior to men were portrayed as dangerous or vulgar
B. Women in Etruscan society
1. women had freedom Greeks and Romans of the time mistook for immodesty
2. could go out of their homes, attend games, and dine with men
3. art showed women and men together
4. upper-class Etruscan women were literate
5. had more sexual freedom
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