DoomsdaysCW<p>Women's rights in Greece and Rome were more of my specialty -- especially ancient Greece. And yes, all this was how it was -- women had few rights under <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Athenian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Athenian</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/patriarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>patriarchy</span></a>. </p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LegalStatus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LegalStatus</span></a> of Women in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ancient" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ancient</span></a> Greece </p><p>Women were dependent on fathers, husbands, or <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/kyroi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kyroi</span></a> (appointed guardians). They could not own property, and were considered wards of their fathers or kyroi.</p><p>In <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/500BCE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>500BCE</span></a>, fathers could sell their unmarried daughters “who had lost their <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/virginity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>virginity</span></a>” (Blundell, 69) into slavery.</p><p>“<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Inheritance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Inheritance</span></a> was <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/patrilineal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>patrilineal</span></a>” (Blundell, 66) – even if a daughter was the only child, she could not inherit her father’s property – it would be passed down to “her sons” (Blundell, 66), or “more distant [male] relatives” (Blundell, 66).</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Autonomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Autonomy</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Histodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Histodon</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AncientHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AncientHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/AncientGreece" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AncientGreece</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PropertyRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PropertyRights</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WomensRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WomensRights</span></a></p>