women. We're not born to contend with men", she is reflecting the "mainstream"

view of women in early Greece, one that was shared by many and opposed by few.

Women were treated as possessions, and thought to be greatly inferior than their male

counterparts. Within such early Greek works as Pericles' Funeral Oration, Oedipus the

King, Antigone, and The Last Days of Socrates: the Apology, this popular opinion is

displayed. Among those who would agree with Ismene's statement are Creon in

Antigone, Pericles in his Funeral Oration, and Socrates in The Last Days of Socrates: the

Apology. Those who would oppose it include both Antigone's father, Oedipus, and her

fiance, Haemon, and also Sappho, in her poetry. The majority of Greeks in those days,

though, would agree with Ismene's statement about women.

While Creon would strongly agree with Ismene's statement, Antigone obviously

differed in opinion, and did not let the comment stop her from completing her act of

devotion to her family. Antigone's response to her sister was,

"I won't insist, no, even if you should have a change of heart, I'd never

welcome you in the labor, not with me. So do

society would not have been paid very much attention to. Sappho obviously shows, in

reveals her desire to remain obedient when she tells her sister, "...we're underlings, ruled

would agree with Ismene and Creon. In Pericles' Funeral Oration, he does not say much

widowhood, it will be all comprised in this brief exhortation: Great will be

father-you woman's slave!" These statements that Creon makes in Antigone prove that

might be excused for thinking that the finest specimens of Athenian manhood, whom

"Lament for a Maidenhead", Sappho describes the before and after views of a woman's

criticizing and belittling them in one of the worst possible ways. Socrates and Pericles,

submissive in her poetry works, which give a rare account of women in those days. She

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