Greek Culture Scholarship

• What did Annas say about Athenian women in Plato's

  "Athenian women in Plato's day led suppressed and powerless lives. They were not legal persons"
• What did Annas say about the interactions between men and women?

  "Seldom have the sexes been so segregated in every aspect of life....Women were not even the primary sex objects for men. They had virtually no interaction with the social, political or romantic lives of men
• What did Grube say about homosexual love in Greece?

  "Homosexual love alone was generally regarded by the Greeks as fulfilling the highest desires of men."
• What did Waterfield say about homoeroticism in ancient Athens?

  It was considered "perfectly natural, especially in the leisured classes."
• Which group of people did Waterfield say frequently engaged in homoeroticism?

  He described it as an "upper-class phenomenon"
• What did Freeman say about sexual relations between women?

  "Throughout most of the Greek and Roman world, there was less tolerance for same-sex relations between women."
• What did Goldhill say about female homoeroticism in the ancient world?

  "A practice with no social status except that of reviled and repressed perversion."