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for comparison ... THE WOMAN IN THE COMPANY 'GREEK-ROMAN

In the culture of greek and Roman civilization, the difference between men and women have a twofold nature: biological and cultural. From the biological point of view, the woman responded to the task essential to reproduce the species. In Greek and Roman society, as indeed in almost all ancient civilizations, the woman is seen primarily as a mother, is indeed the symbol of fertility.
In Greek culture, most women lived a life of "internal" private, family, mostly locked up in four walls.

After marriage, the only public event of their lives, the Greek women became socially invisible: they could not take part in politics or sports (except Sparta), or assist shows. So, forced to work in the home, could not participate in any activities for which the Greek civilization has passed into history.
Roman women, however, leading a somewhat different, that today we would say "more free." In the early centuries of the Roman republic, the woman was under the absolute power of the pater familias, as well as property, slaves and children. In the Augustan period (late first century BC), however, this situation of complete independence was modified: the woman was accorded a larger freedom, certainly greater than that afforded to it in the context of other civilizations. In ancient times, for example, only the husband could divorce his wife, while even later the woman was entitled to sue for divorce, in addition, he received a dowry at marriage in the event of divorce left her and this gave her a autonomy.
This autonomy was not enough to emancipate the Roman woman from her traditional role as "queen of the hearth" (and, in fact, his life spent mostly inside their home), but it was enough for them to enjoy some activities precluded Greek woman: sport, for example, but also the cultural life (theater, philosophy, law) and religion. It was what happened in the bacchanalia, events religious services in honor of the greek god Dionysus (the Romans called Bacchus). During these rites, small groups of initiates, men but especially women, they indulge in singing and wild dancing, during which they fell into a kind of hypnotic trance that allowed them direct contact with the deity. Although this was an extreme form of female liberation and much disputed.

[listen to the song "Women of Athens" by E. Finardi]