annotated bibliographywomen in ancient greece
... Men’s Property; The Origins of Gender and Class. Thetford, Norfolk: Thetford Press Ltd, 1986. This book mainly focused on how women were the insignificant gender and species. It had many examples of how women’s lives were ruled by the men in their family and society. The Greeks denied that women played any part in the reproduction of the species. They stated that, “the various elements that determine the life of a free woman in an African slave society bear an odd resemblance to those described in Athens…” Graham, Casey. Ancient Greek Women in Athens & Daily Life in Ancient Greece. 24 Jan. 2003 http://www.angelfire.com/ca3/ancientchix/ http://www.members.aol.com/Donnclass/Greeklife.html. These websites had a tremendous amount of general fact and information of lives of children, teens, and women in Ancient Greece. It was filled with facts including marriage, gods and goddesses, and responsibilities. It helped a lot in understanding everyday life of a person in Greece. Larrington, Carolyne. The Feminist Companion to Mythology. Hammersmith, London: Pandora Press, 1992. Larrington basically took the women’s “side” in the Greek society and described how unfairly they were treated and viewed. “Within the study of mythology, female figures have too often been viewed reductively, purely in terms of their sexual function and confined in a catch-all category labelled fertility. This book expresses that women need to know the myths that have determined how we see ourselves and how society sees us. Saxonhouse, Arlene. Women in the History of Political Thought; Ancient Greece To Machiavelli. New York, New York: Praeger Publishers, 1985. This book not only had general facts about women’s lives in Greece, but a little feminism also. She had the typical information regarding life in ancient times but had great emphasis on th...