Posted by Oldtimer on September 08, 2004 at 16:58:11
In Reply to: Re: The Bible and women posted by Perry on September 08, 2004 at 14:33:34:
You'll like the poetic justice of this one, Perry.
The Greeks had a horribly low opinion of women. Hesiod said woman was created as a separate race by the gods to punish men. Pandora "a beautiful evil" was the first woman. "From her is the race of women...the deadly race who live amongst mortal men to their great trouble."
Aristophanes said, "Women are a shamless set, the vilest creatures going." Aeschylus called women "intolerable creatures" and added, "I would not choose to live with the female sex either in bad times nor during a welcome peace." Euripides wrote, "clever women are dangerous". Meanander said women are "an abominable caste, hated of all the gods."
One man was considered worth more than 10,000 women, and leaders such as Pericles and Thucydides said that women should be shut up indoors, never oging out. While the men roamed the streets and enjoyed vast marble buildings, gymnasiums and markets, women were to be shut up in dark, squalid, unsanity homes.
Now the funny thing is: the Sythians were northeast of Greece and their bitter enemies of the Greek Empire when it expanded east to the Black Sea, and the Sythian women rode out to battle with their men against the Greeks! This is where the original legends of "Amazons" (women warriors) came from, the Sythian women.
Small wonder the Amazons were fighting Greece! Too bad they didn't overthrow it and set the poor Greek women free!