... Sophocles, Fragment 583 from terus. A scorned wife spoke this in one of Sophocles" lost plays. Sophocles has seized the essence of what it means to be a woman in Athens at this time. The marriage of an Athenian woman and man is hard to define exactly because there has not been ... marriage were nor for love, as we would expect, it would be for profitable and more pragmatic reasons. Usually most beneficial to the male's in the bride's life. Since the women were not supposed to be unattended they are assumed to have accepted what was decided for them in terms of a husband ... to do things...

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