The Marrige And Social Status Of Women's Of Athen's In The Classical Period

Women of Athen's marriage and social status in the classical period is a important aspectof women' history research of Ancient Greece. In the classical period of athen's, there werethree categories of marries, one was had married rites, the second was epikleros' married, thethird was concubinage married. In the betrothe rites, the bride was ought to prepare a lot ofdowries. First of all, the dowry could be help for her to look for a good husband. Second, theformer guardian of the women have the right to renounce the marriage and recall the dowry.So the dowry could give great protect for the women. The epikleros' didn't have the protect ofdowry, but the city published a lot of laws to protect them. The cocubinage were the foreignerand the poor citizen women who couldn't offer the large sum dowries. It is universal that theathenian had concubineage, but the concubineage status were lower. Women didn't had therigth in poltical but they couldn't be the onlooker; women didn't had the right to deal with theeconomics things in the law, but they could deal with them commonly in reality. The restrictof the public opinion couldn't obstruct the women's step of take part in social activity.Acconomy the society progress, the opinion of the athenian to the women made the positivetransformation, this was reflected in the writer and philisopher's writing.