Women in the Ancient Greek cities

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Ancient Women

This essay will deal with Western Civilization and the lives of the women who lived it in Egypt , Greece and Rome . The focus of the for Egypt will in part deal with the ruling of Akhenaten and his fairer treatment of women than has been documented for previous pharaohs (since women were considered second class citizens in ancient Egypt . The section dedicated to Greece will present the Athenian woman and her household duties , and her diurnal tasks . The section

dedicated to Roman women will present how they exhibited themselves in society and how they compared to slaves , how they were educated and what was expected of them through marriage

After Akhenaten passed in his 17th year as Pharaoh , the Egyptian landscape was in dissent . One such dissenting factor was who would be successor to Akhenaten 's throne , as Gore states

The debate is confused by the Egyptian tradition of giving pharaohs a throne name and a personal name . Until recently scholars assumed that there was only one immediate successor , a pharaoh with the throne name of Ankhkheprure and the personal name Smenkhkare . He supposedly married Akhenaten 's eldest daughter , Meritaten . Now some suspect there were actually two pharaohs with the throne name Ankhkheprure . The other pharaoh 's personal name was Nefernefruaten , which is identical to a longer variation of Nefertiti 's name . Did Nefertiti survive and rule briefly as pharaoh (37

The concept of a woman as Pharaoh is very revolutionary (which can be attributed to Akhenaten 's ideas of giving his wife Nefertiti divine aspects . Whoever was the successor of Akhenaten 's throne , it was definitely a woman . Akhenaten ensured that Nefertiti was treated as an equal to him and during his reign women were rising up in power which was another factor attributing to Akhenaten 's heresy . After this ruling of a woman as regent the famous king Tut became pharaoh of Egypt . Tut 's reign reestablished Amun as the primary god and he also moved the Egypt capital back to Thebes . Most of the history of Akhenaten was eradicated just as Akhenaten has gotten rid of the image of Amun so was his image scraped from the faces of statues , and painted over

In the construction of the temple at Karnak , much can be deciphered about Akhenaten . With monotheism now the current religion of Egypt Akhenaten builds Karnak as a temple to stand for the concept of Egypt 's present and not the past polytheism : Not only was monotheism the theme of the temple but also the rising to power of Nefertiti this is why Akhenaten was considered a feminist he gave his wife equal status . She was in fact considered to be part of the trinity of the gods during this period of which Akhenaten and Aten were included . The new religion itself was themed after an equal gendered deity , who was symbolized in statues in representation of Akhenaten as androgynous as is described in...