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The Most Silent Women of Greece and Rome: Rural Labour and Women's Life in The Ancient World (II)

Scheidel, Walter·1996·Greece and Rome
DOI 10.1093/gr/43.1.1
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How can these ideas be linked to the ancient sources? Focusing first of all on women's contribution to arable cultivation and arboriculture, we immediately face the first of many blanks. To the best of my knowledge, we do not have any explicit evidence of ploughing by women in the Greco-Roman world. Only two lines from Hesiod's Works and Days seem to establish a connection between women and ploughing: according to Hesiod, a proper head of a household would need ‘first of all a house, and then a woman and oxen for ploughing – a slave woman, not a wife, to follow the oxen [or: to care for the oxen]’ (405 f.). In the fourth century B.C., however, the second line that specifies the status and the function of the desired woman was apparently not yet part of the received text, since Aristotle could still regard her as a free woman (Pol. 1252a llff). Not until the first century B.C. did Philodemos of Gadara quote and defend the reading that defined Hesiod's woman as a slave labourer. Even so, the wording does not make it clear whether this woman was meant to follow the harnessed oxen, that is, to do the ploughing, or to care for the oxen in the stable.

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Authors
Scheidel, W.
Corresponding author
Scheidel, Walter
Venue
Greece and Rome
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Published
1996-04
Volume
43
Issue
1
Pages
1-10
ISSN
  • 0017-3835 (ISSN-L)
  • 1477-4550
DOI
10.1093/gr/43.1.1
OpenAlex
W4249626304
Semantic Scholar
081b1d523f1acf208d07e4342363a66968c30b90
Cited by
128
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12
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2026: 4 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 3 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 2 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 34
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Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.cambridge.org/core/terms (unspecified, 4907 d)
Locations
Greece and Rome (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Classics › Classical Antiquity Studies
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology (arts and humanities) › Historical and Literary Studies
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology (arts and humanities) › Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History
Keywords
rural labor, arable cultivation, arboriculture, ploughing, Hesiod's Works and Days, Aristotle's Politics, Philodemus, enslaved women, women in ancient Greece, Roman women, gender and work, ancient sources

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