Ancient Modern Lifestyle Of A Woman

Women have played important roles throughout history. They have been responsible for the rise and fall of nations, sustaining families, and have been the focal point of worship in ancient religions. Moving forward in history, women's roles have continually changed. Their status as matriarchs changed as the more advanced ancient civilizations rose. The patriarchal societies of ancient Greece and Rome viewed women differently from some societies of past eras. The study of the economic and political status of women, their rights, and their contributions to both these ancient societies reveals how views change throughout history.

While social change has brought on more changes than what women are a custom too, at one point in history women actually felt a form of importance in fulfilling their roles not only in the home; but outside as well. “These demographic shifts account for many new or altered roles, such as increased number of duel-earner families, later and fewer marriages, fewer children, increased life expectancy, and the massive migration shifting employees across a nation and across the globe” (Lindsey, 2011, pg. 275).

However, for women in poorer families that is not the case. They had to work along side the husband and most time kids out in the fields. They would normally work their, depending on income, from morning until night (3). Then, she would come back to the house and take care of it. Greek homes were really not that fancy. The walls were made with mud brick that were covered in plaster and topped with pottery tiles to make a roof. The windows were not covered so they were pretty much open holes. Poor families had normally one or two rooms while rich families had multi-roomed and multi-story house. Even though the two classes of people were separated by vast wealth they all had very basic and simple wooden furniture. (3)

In today’s society, we as women often take for granted the rights, freedoms, and equality we share with men that women in the ancient world were not granted. As all civilisations in the ancient world exercised different treatment towards, this essay will illustrate a few comparisons in the status of women during ancient Egypt with women during ancient Rome. Academic sources will be relied on to provide the necessary actualities when one considers ancient civilizations. The legal status of women in society, the domestic atmospheres and roles that each unique region’s women held, and the possible occupations available to these women, will be discussed.

In ancient Greek time women were seen as being delicate and placed on figurative pedestals. They were expected to take care of the house but had word in the decision of the order and way things should run in the house.

“Most girls were trained from childhood for the traditional roles of wife, mother, and housekeeper. They learned how to grind grain, how to cook and make beverages, especially beer, and how to spin and weave cloth for clothing. If a woman worked outside of her home, her job usually grew out of her household

The family role of the women in Roman societies is sum what similar to that of Islamic women. Roman women are also responsible for the duties of the household. But instead of the Roman women doing the jobs themselves, they had slaves to do the tasks for them. Her job was to oversee the slaves.(Esposito, April 2005) Islamic wife, the Roman wife was also in charge of the early education of their children. Another job of a wife was to have children. (Lewis, J., p. 56)

As we have learned from history, women generally do not have the same equal rights as men do. In fact, it is rare to find a time in history, where both men and women were seen as equal people and given the same rights. During this course, we have studied several civilizations that do not practice equality for both genders. One primary example is the Athenian Civilization and how their women did not have natural rights, they were seen as housewives, and their husbands decided their freedom. This image of women is one that is constantly seen throughout history, and can even be found in some societies in today’s world.

Women in ancient to Roman times. In this essay, I will explain cultural transformation that happened between Ancient to the Roman times surrounding women, their role and place in society, as well as the stigma of how they lived their lives. The role of women and their place in society was, and still is a major topic of controversy.

We find women as nobility and landed gentry managing both large and small estates. Women were middle class housekeepers, servants, field hands, and all manner of skilled workers inside the household and in estate-workshops. Women in ancient Egypt could also hold office which made them more prominent to holding real jobs. (Virtual Egypt - The Egyptian People’s Papyrus, www.virtual-egypt.com). Of course, poorer and lower women of Mesopotamia in their social status did not have the jobs that women of a higher status did.

The book Life in Ancient Rome. This book talks about how roman women dressed themselves up. “Elagabalus often dressed as a woman, wore huge earings and strings of pearls, and painted his eyes with gold makeup, his lips with blue, and his cheeks and feet red. He used to make his face look like a painting of venus.” (Nardo). Elagabalus was a roman emporer that was a bisexuale tranvestite, he best show what women did to themselves every day to get ready. The mor dressed up you were with the better stuff showed your status. Women put a lot of work into looking beautiful by the standards that they lived

It was the most common form of female clothing throughout the Pharaonic period and the garments were worn by women regardless of their social position. Erman said that, there is no difference between women dress from ancient Egypt, while Eastwood refer too many different according to the shape of these cloths, like wrap-round form, V-necked dress, and finally bead dress. As we said before, there is a dress which might be the oldest in the world was found in Mastaba 2050 at Tarkhan, Time of king Djet, 1st dynasty and now in Petrie museum. Also, the two dresses from Deshesheh illustrate the sleeved version of the woman's long narrow dress that was worn throughout the early dynasties, Old Kingdom and

Unlike us having our 1st world problems the “Greeks were not fussy about their clothing.” Unlike us in the USA the Greeks’ clothes “they wore were made simply and for function.” Unlike the richest/girly girls we all know today only “A single piece of fabric could be styled and restyled to fit a particular occasion or fashion.” And with Greek summers being brutally hot, the less fabric...to deal with, the better.” ““The style and type of the garment depended on who was wearing it, and the job

An ancient Egyptian women 's main goal and responsibility was to be a good mother and nurturer and to be the head of the family in a sense in order to keep the family strong and close. Family was very important to Egyptian women and they spent a lot of time and effort creating a solid foundation of a family because she knew they depended on it. These women have been shown doing housework such as cleaning and cooking, however, they also were given the opportunity to hire other workers to help them. Their husbands even worked with their wives to keep the home clean and in decent shape. Ancient Egyptian women also had the responsibility of making sure their ancestor 's tombs remained clean and also took the time to send prayers for those who have passed already.

Women in ancient Egypt share the same political, and social significance as women do today in the 21st century. In ancient Egypt, both women and men were essentially equal, other than the occupations they were allowed to obtain. Men in ancient Egypt took on the more hard/dangerous jobs because they were considered more superior in that area of life. They took on jobs such as political representatives, and merchants while women were known to bore and raise children, along with the doings of domestic house work. But throughout time women in ancient Egypt were able to ‘climb’ their way up the political system. Although, here in the 21st century, there are no laws that state a woman cannot do the same of type labor as a man, it is often practiced