What is Women in Ancient Greece?
The status of women in [[Classical Greece]] was different in different [[city state]]<nowiki/>s. Women in ancient [[Delphi]], Gortyn, [[Thessaly]], [[Megara]] and [[Sparta]] could own land, which was the most prestigious form of [[private property]] at the time.<ref name=Ute>{{Cite book| last = Gerhard| first = Ute| title = Debating women's equality: toward a feminist theory of law from a European perspective| publisher = Rutgers University Press| year = 2001| page = 33/35| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=XMohyLfGDDsC&q=women+right+to+property| isbn = 978-0-8135-2905-9}}</ref> == Athens == In [[ancient Athens]], women were not [[citizens]]. Until marriage, women were under the [[guardian]]ship of their father or other male relative. After marriage, their husband (''kyrios'') acted for the wife in all legal matters.<ref name=Sue>{{Cite book| last = Blundell| first =Sue| title = Women in ancient Greece, Volume 1995, Part 2| publisher = Harvard University Press| year = 1995| page = 114/5| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Xfx1VaSIOgQC&q=women+athens| isbn = 978-0-674-95473-1}}</ref> Athenian women had limited [[property]] [[rights]].<ref name=Ute/><ref name=Sue/> Athenian women could enter into a contract worth less than the value of a “medimnos of barley” (a measure of grain). This allowed women to engage in petty trading.<ref name=Sue/> [[Slaves]], like free women, were not eligible for full citizenship in ancient Athens, but sometimes, rarely, they could become citizens if freed. Women, on the other hand, could never get full [[civil rights]]. No women ever acquired citizenship in ancient Athens, and so they were excluded from ancient [[Athenian democracy]].<ref>{{Cite book| last = Robinson| first = Eric W.| title = Ancient Greek democracy: readings and sources| publisher = Wiley-Blackwell| year = 2004| page = 302| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Jug6crxEImIC&q=Aristophanes+ecclesiazusae+women%27s+rights| isbn = 978-0-631-23394-7 }}</ref> == Sparta == By contrast, [[Sparta]]n women enjoy