DoomsdaysCW<p>Things weren't always so bad for women in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AncientGreece" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AncientGreece</span></a>. In the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ArchaicAge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ArchaicAge</span></a>, they had a little more freedom -- but not as much as women in nearby <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Sparta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sparta</span></a> or <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Crete" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Crete</span></a>... </p><p>Women's Occupations in Ancient Greece</p><p>In the Archaic Age, young women “were apparently not kept in physical seclusion, and had a reasonable degree of movement” (Blundell, 69) but were still always accompanied by other women, and were <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/veiled" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>veiled</span></a>.</p><p>As ancient Greece moved into the Athenian age, public institutions (with the exception of some religious ones), “were male-dominated and revolved around characteristically male activities – <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/warfare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>warfare</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/athletics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>athletics</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/drinking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>drinking</span></a> parties” (Blundell, 76).</p><p>The only choices women had were to be <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/enslaved" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>enslaved</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/married" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>married</span></a>, become <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/hetaerae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hetaerae</span></a> (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/prostitutes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>prostitutes</span></a>), or hold “sacred service roles” [<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/priesthood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>priesthood</span></a>] (Connelly, 31) – though most religious positions were hereditary or reserved for the wealthy.</p><p>But after that, women’s domain was pretty much limited to the household where “they were entirely responsible for the production of textiles” (Blundell, 71) and food preparation. The only time women could leave the home was to perform religious activities.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WomensRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomensRights</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AncientHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AncientHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Histodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Histodon</span></a></p>