Documentation from the palace records their numbers, the provision of basic rations like grain and figs, and the distribution of raw materials for their work, all of which underscore this dependency.

Some of these groups are listed under the name of a male supervisor or owner, and many records also note their children, who presumably worked alongside their mothers and learned their trades.

Her role could have been limited to overseeing this group, or she might have held a higher position within the palace's administration, though there's insufficient context to determine her exact responsibilities.

Although most women lacked political and equal rights in Ancient Greece, they enjoyed a certain freedom of movement until the Archaic age.

[7] Records exist of women in ancient Delphi, Gortyn, Thessaly, Megara and Sparta owning land, the only durable form of wealth at the time.

[7] In general, Classical Greek women were expected to manage a household, supervising or performing domestic tasks such as weaving cloth, and bearing children.

[citation needed] Historian Don Nardo stated "throughout antiquity most Greek women had few or no civil rights and many enjoyed little freedom of choice or mobility.

"[9] Detailed records on the status of women in Ancient Greece only describe the behavior and treatment of elites, and have survived for only three poleis: Sparta, Athens and Gortyn.

Most historians assume that women's rights in other Greek polities could be placed somewhere on a continuum between Spartan and Athenian societies.

[citation needed] Women in Classical Athens had no legal personhood and were assumed to be part of the oikos (household) headed by the male kyrios (master).

In Athenian society, the legal term of a wife was known as a damar, a word that is derived from the root meaning of "to subdue" or "to tame".

[19] Legal records suggest that respectable women may have been embarrassed in the presence of their male relatives[20] or for an unrelated man to simply know their name.

Their gender acted as a permanent disability inhibiting full citizenship,[24] similar to enslavement but without a removal process analogous to manumission.

[28] Most upper-class Athenian boys would receive private tutelage on rhetoric and physical education, essential for political and military participation.

[33] The priestesshood of Athena held great moral suasion[34] and women appear to have managed private rites of passage.

These women bore the economic brunt of Sparta's extractive class structure, and had few-to-no legal protections against abuse.

[37] By contrast, the extremely few free ("spartiate") women enjoyed status, power, and respect that was unknown in the rest of the classical world.

[46][47][48] Unlike in other city-states, however, Spartiate women rarely performed domestic labor, which they considered demeaning and better extorted from helots.

[37][49][50] Helot-made Spartiate clothing was notoriously simple and short relative to in other polities, and scandalously bared girls' thighs.

Athens was the cradle of philosophy in Ancient Greece, and most surviving philosophic texts work to justify Athenian practice.

[9] During the Hellenistic period in Athens, the famous philosopher Aristotle thought that women would bring disorder, evil, and were "utterly useless and caused more confusion than the enemy.

[9] Athenian women were also educated very little, except home tutorship for basic skills such as spinning, weaving, cooking, and some knowledge of money.

[9] Plato acknowledged that extending civil and political rights to women would substantively alter the nature of the household and the state.

[68] The Stoics adopted the views of the Cynics and added them to their own theories of human nature, thus putting their sexual egalitarianism on a strong philosophical basis.

In the instance of a divorce, the dowry was returned to the woman's guardian (who was usually her father) and she had the right to retain half of the goods she had produced while in the marriage.

Such pottery provides a medium which allows us to examine women's roles of the time, generally depicted as goddesses, keepers of domestic life, or whores.

Scenes of adornment in vase painting are a window into the women's sphere, though they are not entirely realistic, rather, a product of the voyeuristic and romanticized image of womanhood envisioned by males.

It can be inferred that during sunny weather, women probably sat in the roofed and shaded areas of the courtyard, for the ideal in female beauty was a pale complexion.

[73] Lysistrata persuades the women of the warring cities to withhold sexual privileges from their husbands and lovers as a means of forcing the men to negotiate peace.

Bouboulina, also known as kapetanissa (captain/admiral) in 1821 raised on the mast of Agamemnon her own Greek flag and sailed with eight ships to Nafplion to begin a naval blockade.