1. archaeological sources - pottery
- i.e black figure vase paintings - few good ones out there- find it yourself =p
--i.e the well known black figure vase painting of women spinning and weaving at home --> the jobs they had
2. According to Thucydides - in pericles famous funeral speech - " The greast glory of a woman is that her name is least talked aout by the men whether they are praising or critizing you."
3. Use Aristophane's play - The poet and the women
- a character makes an insult, "cabbage woman", revealing to us that a woman is socially inferior, if you had to go and work in the public.
4. Xenophon describes a wife's duties in Economicus, "You will stay inside...you must supervise the indoor servants."
5. A speech written by Lysias for a hushand whose wife was in court on a charge of adultery. "She was a clever and economical manager of the house, running everything."
6. vase paintings depicting a woman sitting on a special chair called the clismos, symbolises her being the mistress of the house
7. Parthenon frieze -> depicting the great panathenaic festival - shows women and men mixed only on special occasions