A Comparison Of The Status Of Women In Classical Athens And Early Christianity

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A Comparison of the Status of Women in Classical Athens and Early Christianity

A Comparison of the Status of Women in Classical Athens and Early Christianity

     Since the beginning of time the treatment of women has improved
dramatically.  In the earliest of times women were mere slaves to men.  Today
women are near equals in almost all fields.  In 411 B.C., when Lysistrata was
written, men had many stunning advantages to that of their female counterparts.
Although women's rights between 30 and 100 A.D., the time of the New Testament,
were still not what they are today, the treatment of women was far better.
Overall, the equality of women in the New Testament exceeds that of the women in
Lysistrata in three major ways:  physical mobility, society's view of women's
nature, and women's public legal rights.
     Albeit in Lysistrata the women were shown as revolutionaries rising up
against the men, women in classical Greece were never like that.  Aristophanes
created the play as a comedy, showing how the world might be in the times of the
Peloponesian war if women tried to do something.  It was the women's job to stay
home and tend to the house, and never leave, unlike they did in the play, the
women were shown as revolutionaries rising up against the men, women in
classical Greece were never like that.
     The activities of women in Classical Athens were confined to "bearing
children, spinning and weaving, and maybe managing the domestic arrangements. No
wandering in the beautiful streets for them."   The suppression of women went so
far as to divide the house into separate areas for males and females.  While the
women stayed home, the men were usually out fighting, and when they were...

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