Amazons fight the Greeks 4th century B.C. Frieze from the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, Budron, Turkey

1. Amazons fight the Greeks 4th century B.C. Frieze from the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, Budron, Turkey

2. Do�s and Don�t for women in ancient Greece and Rome Women could not engage in transactions worth more than a grain of barley. Athens: a widow could inherit her husband�s property only if she immediately married one of his close male relatives and ceded it all to him. Sparta: women could inherit property until the 3rd century B.C., when 2/5 of all land belonged to them. (Then men changed the law.) A man could divorce his wife if: she was unfaithful, practiced sorcery, was a prostitute, he wanted to marry an heiress. A woman could divorce her husband ONLY if he commited: murder necrophilia or another bad crime Greek women who gave birth after divorce were compelled by law to offer the child to her former husband. In lower classes in Greece, women were sold by their fathers as concubines. And when they aged, became servants to the family. Rome: citizen class women gained a few rights to go out in public and attend dinner parties, plays, pageants, and other social events. SOME EVEN LEARNED TO READ AND WRITE.

3. Pliny the Elder wrote in the 1st century: The odor of a woman�s burned hair drives away serpents. Ash of burned hair cures warts, sorey eyes, and diaper rash. And mixed with honey, can cure ulcers, wounds and gout. Breast milk cures fever and nausea. Saliva of a fasting woman is �powerful medicine for bloodshot eyes�. �..breastband tied around the head� relieves headaches MENSTRUAL FLUID causes: new wine to turn sour, seeds in gardens to dry up, steel edges to dull, bronze and iron to rust, and dogs to go mad.