Conception et valeur des femmes idiotai et euergetai dans la société grecque antique

Abstract

To be born a woman in classical Greece was a real handicap both in social and political life. And within the female gender, one could observe differences that were made and that Greek society imposed on itself mentally: the category of slave women, free women, foreign women, women excluded from the social system. Thus, our article does not claim to restore the daily life of these Greek women, but intends to show that these, in spite of their state of inferiority compared to the men, were able to mark of their print the cultural life, even political. How not to mention the many heroines mentioned in classical literature (Phaedra, Andromache, Penelope, Ariadne, Antigone, Electra, Iphigenia, Helen, Nausikaa ...)? Or those who are honored by the crowd and the people through public decrees?