Greek law makes it clear that women were owned by men. Women could not be trusted to handle their own personal affairs, or to support themselves. They were to be under the guidance and instruction of a man at all times, whether it was their father, husband, or another male relative. A woman’s role in society is limited, one major responsibility after marriage, was producing daughters for her husband. “Xenophon believed that God had created women for this purpose and he also believed that since God had created the woman and had imposed on her the nourishment of the infants, he meted out to her a larger portion of affection for new-born babes than to the man

Education for the girls and women were more like household chores. The women would teach the girls of ages fifteen how to prepare food, the knowledge of wool spinning, making clothes, and also the joy and the ability to raise children. Spinning and weaving were the job of women to display their artistic skills. Socrates once advised Aristarchus, burdened with the support of his female relatives, to set them to work at the loom. A woman spinning and weaving was creative and useful. A woman also keep an eye on her son’s education until he reached the age of seven, then his education was taken over by the men, and until her daughters left the family to get married. When it was their turn to get married, the daughters performed the tasks they had watched their mothers doing, which they had learned by practicing at their sides. Women were also expected to participate in religious rituals. A man who committed adultery with another man's wife could be killed on the spot, where it was rape or not it was carrying a punishment of a fine. This shows that if a woman “belonged” to another man, any man who slept with her,

Xenophon, Aristotle, and other great minds of the time thought “men and women are, by nature, provided with opposite faculties, which nevertheless provide for the "partnership"

even with her permission, would be punished cruelly. However, if this same woman did not belong to another man, it was okay for a man to violate her, even without her

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