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(Under the Religion Aspect)
Religion played a major role in the virtues that men and women stride to have. Even though women did not have a role in the political and social aspects of accent Greece they did play a major role in Greek Mythology. The Greek Goddesses shaped the virtues that women in accent strides to have, the largest one being the retention of their virginity compared to male Greek Gods who are very sexually active allowing younger men to express their sexuality more freely. Greek Goddesses were used as an image of the social code that women were to follow and laid out the platform that married and unmarried woman should follow idolizing Hera, Aphrodite, and other powerful women. For men, the image of an authority figure like Zeus or a fighter like Ares

(Under Social Structure)
In accent Greek Cities women were not considered citizens restricting them from socially or politically gaining any power. Society heavily stressed on women reproduction within their families, the retention of their virginity until they were married, their role as mothers, and as wives. There were some correlation with men and women in Greek society; their ties to "family ties, locality, religious association, economic activity and so on, and the relationships embedded in these networks could be long term or short term, formal or informal" equally effecting their status, where their could go in the cities, and political power that a given family would have. Although in the public specter one would say that these aspects could not help women,but in the private specter, women were able to benefit from all of these aspects through influencing their fathers and husbands.

In Athens, women were considered lowered than slaves in their society not being to own any land or live an independent life apart from their fathers or their husbands; but in accent Sparta, women were allowed to live an independent life, own property, and interact in society more freely, and were able to earn the same title as a man in the military. Both Athens and Spartan women were not allowed to participate in politics but they were able to influence their husbands political thoughts throughout their own.

In both Athens and Sparta, the woman's main goal in society was to bare her husbands children with an emphasis on having sons. In Athens, the birth of a child had no positive effects in her life, but in Sparta a woman's status was elevated with every successful birth she had.(

Under Political Aspect:)
Women in Sparta, Greece, and Athens were not allowed to attend, speak at, vote in political assemblies, or could hold a position in political office. The way that they were able to influence politics were through men (their husbands, bothers, fathers, etc.). The only form on political action that they could partake in was in the divorce of their husbands or to provide evidence in a court case under oath. It is not clear on why women were excluded form political practices. There are many speculations on why they were excluded; the main one being retaining men's power over women throughout society. Aristotle in his book, IX, History of Animals beveled that the reason why women were to be excluded from democracy was dependent on their inferiority and because of their emotions. He stated that "women are more compassionate and more readily made to weep, more jealous and querulous, fonder of railing, and more contentious. The female also is more subject to depression of spirits and despair than the male. She is also more shameless and false, more readily deceived, and more mindful of injury, more watchful, more idle, and on the whole less excitable than the male. On the contrary, the male is more ready to help, and, as it has been said, braver than the female;" influencing the reasoning for the exclusion of women in all political aspects.

(Under Philosophy)
Knows philosopher Aristotle used his methods and reasoning to influence the social structures that made up accent Greece. He believed that "[T]he male, unless constituted in some respect contrary to nature, is by nature more expert at leading than the female, and the elder and complete than the younger and incomplete." promoting the political exclusion that women faced in accent Greece. He believed that, by nature, men were greatly superior to women and that ti was their natural duty to lead them. He explains this by saying "[T]he relation of male to female is by nature a relation of superior to inferior and ruler to ruled." . When explaining social powers of women he would compare them to slaves and children stating that "The slave is wholly lacking the deliberative element; the female has it but it lacks authority; the child has it but it is incomplete." . It was not just Aristotle who believed that women were inferior. Plato shared the same beliefs about women and believed that they were naturally weaker to men. He believes that “…if the difference consists only in women bearing and men begetting children, this does not amount to a proof that a woman differs from men in respect of the sort of education she should receive; and we shall therefore continue to maintain that our guardians [and] their wives ought to have the same pursuits.”

(In Education)
Get rid about what they have about women**** Education, and the experience that individuals had with education was largely dependent on the city-state that they lived in

Women in ancient Greece had a private education, often in their homes. Women who lived in Sparta though had a public education that lasted the longest, due to the men leaving for war, it was important for the women to be able to keep their city states running. The education for women in Accent Greece is not widely known due to the lack of women writers and the lack of information that was recorded by men.