As ancient Greek history has played such a pivotal role in subsequent cultures throughout time, that to learn about women in this society enhances our understanding of western civilization. Ancient Greece was not a united nation, but a collection of individual sovereign communities with a common language, and similar religious rituals and beliefs. Communication was difficult due to the ... not raise daughters unless they could anticipate providing them with an adequate dowry. Birth of a son was the fulfillment or goal of marriage, although a line from Euripides, in his play, Medea, somewhat ...

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