The Role of Women in Athens

The traditional view is that Athenian women were expected to remain at home, quiet and unnoticed. The ideal that respectable women should remain out of the public eye was entrenched in classical Athens. In Euripides' Heraclideye, for a woman, violence and self-control are best,. Andromachee declares, quote, "There is one prime source of scandal for a woman ... when she won't stay at home"