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Living it up in Ancient Greece (lemmy.world)

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[-] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 139 points 2 years ago

As long as you weren’t born a slave i guess.

[-] Omgpwnies@lemmy.world 106 points 2 years ago

Statement holds true today as well

[-] BedbugCutlefish@lemmy.world 46 points 2 years ago

Or a woman.

Ancient Greece, generally speaking, hated women

[-] SolarMonkey@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I’m interested in learning the context here.

Because modernity also hates women and I guess I’m ignorant but.. weren’t there options for women then..? Like midwife/doula-type things, herbalist/witch, spinster/seamstress-clothier?

Potentially more than they could have in modern history?

[+] AnxiousOtter@lemmy.world 38 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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[-] Dasus@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Remember that "ancient Greece" is our term for an area, rather than a singular nation / empire like Rome.

The area of Greece mainly had Athens and Sparta, and Athens is probably who you're referring to.

But Spartan women weren't that bad off, compared to other places in antiquity.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_ancient_Sparta

Spartan women were famous in ancient Greece for seemingly having more freedom than women elsewhere in the Greek world. To contemporaries outside of Sparta, Spartan women had a reputation for promiscuity and controlling their husbands. Spartan women could legally own and inherit property, and they were usually better educated than their Athenian counterparts.

[-] TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago

But Spartan women weren't that bad off, compared to other places in antiquity

We also white wash Spartan history pretty dramatically. Yes, Spartan women who were citizens were better off than their Athenian counterparts. However, that's not saying much when you consider spartan citizens were a fraction of the population of Sparta.

The vast majority of women in Sparta were helots, and were subject to chattel slavery. I don't think you can claim that Spartans cared about gender equality when they had an entire social class made up of the bastards produced by raping their slaves.

[-] Dasus@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Oh yeah, they weren't like democratic utopias, lol.

The point being that Sparta was as shit as anything in history, but they were a bit less discriminatory towards women. Probably because they weren't really as posessive of them as many other cultures. For... some reason.

On the night of the wedding, the bride would have her hair cut short and be dressed in a man's cloak and sandals. The bride appeared dressed like a man or a young boy to be perceived as less threatening to her husband.

In Sparta [...] the cropping of the bride’s hair and transvestism likely aimed to transform her temporarily into an adolescent Spartan boy – a less threatening figure to the groom, who probably had made his own transition to adulthood via a close emotional and sexual relationship with an older male and was now in the position to sexually initiate other boys into Spartan society

[-] medusa@sh.itjust.works 49 points 2 years ago

Counterpoint: Antibiotics yayyy

[-] AceQuorthon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 years ago

Just rub a fungus on the wound smh

[-] greedytacothief@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Burry yourself in manure as Hippocrates intended!

[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago

That is until you break a bone and learn that there are no pain killers.

[-] isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The ancient Greeks used electric rays to numb the pain of childbirth and operations.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_ray

Not the most effective, but hey, better then opioid addiction

[-] Dasus@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

But they literally did have, well, not opioids, but opium.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium

Evidence from ancient Greece indicates that opium was consumed in several ways, including inhalation of vapors, suppositories, medical poultices, and as a combination with hemlock for suicide.

So no problem with pain medication, actually. @Etterra@lemmy.world

[-] Tabula_stercore@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

She be begging donkey dick for bread by the end of the week

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