Greek Women Vs Roman Women Essay

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In all of ancient world history woman are mentioned very little in history usually you hear various men doing these courageous things on how they lived, what they conquered and how they were treated. But for woman you really don't know what's happening with them. As we take a look at what the Greek and roman woman we will be able to see what type of lifestyle they lived and the difference between each other.
Woman in Roman were accompanied by or in other words looks after by a male figures it could of been a brother, cousin, uncle or any type of officer. Roman woman never really walked freely like the Roman men did.Roman woman was never treated the same as the roman men. Women didn't have a voice or a say in their lives. Since the beginning …show more content…

Not only in the sense of their future political life but they also needed to understand the roman culture and what was expected out of them so that they can become success in there political career.On the other hand, the education for girls wasn't as important as the boys. These young girls were only being home schooled leading them to only get enough education for the basic fundamental. The true reason why they were only receiving the basic education was because one day when the time came for them to bear children they would have to educate them as well. butonceagaindependingwhatsocialclassyouwerethisreallyomlyappliedfortheupperclasswoman. while the lower class they would get educated enough to help out in the family business nothing to exgravtate. In the roman society especially if you were a woman being too educated was not encouraged. Roman men would think that woman had forgotten where they belong leading them to criticize them. Roman woman were prohibited to vote or attend to any meeting involving the state. Even though woman were not allow to vote or be apart of that political life. roman woman had a way of influencing there society a way that they could influence the city was if they were priestesses of a

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