What Was Life REALLY Like for Women in Ancient Athens?

Have We Misunderstood the Women of Ancient Athens? | Katherine Backler on Their Forgotten Lives Were women in ancient Athens simply wives and mothers, largely confined to the home? Or does the surviving evidence reveal a much richer picture? In this episode of Classical Wisdom Speaks, Anya Leonard speaks with ancient historian Katherine Backler, author of Athena’s Sisters: Reclaiming the Women of Classical Athens, to uncover the lives, work, friendships and identities of women too often mis...