HISTORY
ANCIENT GREECE
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Question
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Citizens were not allowed to serve on juries
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People were not allowed to vote for leaders
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Women could not participate in public life
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People were not allowed to criticize the government
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Detailed explanation-1: -In Athens, women generally couldn’t own property, couldn’t vote, and weren’t allowed to participate in the government. In other city-states, women had a few more rights, but still had less rights than men. Women usually had no say in who they married. They were “given” in marriage by their father to another man.
Detailed explanation-2: -Not everyone in Athens was considered a citizen. Only free, adult men enjoyed the rights and responsibility of citizenship. Only about 20 percent of the population of Athens were citizens. Women were not citizens and therefore could not vote or have any say in the political process.
Detailed explanation-3: -It used to be said that the ancient Greek polis was composed of male-citizens, and women did not have any franchise so that they were similar to slaves. However, in contemporary texts women were called also citizens like men.
Detailed explanation-4: -Greek women had virtually no political rights of any kind and were controlled by men at nearly every stage of their lives. The most important duties for a city-dwelling woman were to bear children–preferably male–and to run the household.