Sally

__Ancient Greece women and slaves__ 

= = = = == In Ancient Greece, both women and slaves are very important but they both have different lives. They are both being under control but they are controlled by different peo ple. Greek slaves are being controlled by Greek women and others, while Greek women are usually controlled by their husbands. ==

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==household and these are some of the other jobs that Greek women did back then. One of their jobs was to supervise their slaves, and they were in charged of the household such as cooking and helping out on special events. They had a separate area of the house where men were not aloud to enter. However, in the homes of the poor, separate areas were not available. Poor women worked outside the home, assisting their husbands at the market or at some other job. Poorer women often went to the market without a male escort.== ==Another key point is that Greek women got married between 12-16 years old which is very young and I don’t think that the age 12-16 can be mature enough to raise a child. Girls from rich families got married younger than 12-16 years old. Usually, their husband was chosen from their father or uncles or brothers. Often girls had not even met the man they married before the wedding. Also, in Ancient Greece, Greek women were not aloud to have marriage ceremony. In fact, there are two main reasons for marriages, one, is that the management of property and second is the production of future heirs. Their duty after getting married is to have born children. Greek women are very different from the women in present time. They are very important to families that they take care of. It must be hard to mange all the things going on. They were not always free to go anywhere, most likely never unless they get permission from their husband and finish all their work. == ==There was many ways for Greek people being a slave in the olden time. Some of them were children of slave, some of them were sold by their family because they don’t have enough money or can’t raise a child and many more reasons. They had to do lots of things for their owner and they don’t have much freedom and these are some things that they do. One thing that every slave does was to clean and cook. In Ancient Greece, it was usually girls to do all the chores and boys look out for danger and do farming. On the other hand, slaves can’t go to school, can’t enter politics, and they can’t even use their own name. Their name was given by their owner. Greek slaves can’t go the public Assembly unless their owner tells them to go with them. Slaves eat whatever their owner eats, and some slaves were beaten and starved if the don’t worth a lot. However, Greek slaves were always supervised by the women of the house and sometimes they can be forced to work without being paid.== ==The owner of the slaves has the ability to say how much they sell them for. For example, if they are healthy, attractive, and young, they could be sold for $180.00 but if they are old, stubborn, and weak, they could be sold for only $9.00. If a large amount of slaves are being sold at the same time, the price will drop and it usually happens when the war ended. Although Greek slaves didn’t have much freedom, they still feel happy the way they are. There were many hard jobs for slaves and if there were no slaves in Ancient Greece, not many buildings and workers would be in Greece, that’s why they are very important.  == ==  Greek slaves and women have a poor life compared to women and slaves in any other country. They have to work a lot and they don't have as much freedom as any other people do especially slaves. ==


=By : Sally =