When you think of the ancient Greeks, what do you think of? Do you think of the Olympics or democracy or grandiose city-states, such as Athens and Sparta? Well, what you may not have thought about that there was an aspect of everyday ancient Greek society known as misogyny, or prejudice against women. Ancient Greek women were usually stuck performing domestic labor in the household under the control of men. They could not participate in government, they did not have rights, and they had to obey the men in their lives. Generally speaking, they were thought to have only one purpose: reproduction. Not many ancient Greeks paid attention to misogyny since it was always an accepted part of ancient Greek society and was rooted deeply in their history.
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In his The Book of Fables, written some time before 17 AD and after 75 BC the Greek author Hyginus, who was the student of the ancient Greek grammarian Cornelius Alexander Polyhistor, states that ancient Greek motives for suicide included intolerable pain, the loss of the will to live, the yearning to be reunited with lost loved ones, extreme guilt, shame, a loss of honor, a feeling of unworthiness, a wanting to be remembered, self-sacrifice, a plea for attention or help, a serious mental illness, incest, and a failed love affair. Of course, there were other causes, such as the need to escape imminent death, suicide as a way of intimidating the enemy on the battlefield, suicide as a way of dealing with the grief over the passing of someone special, and suicide to escape drastic physical pain. But these are only some of the reasons for ancient Greek …show more content…
The ancient Greeks used numerous methods including but are not limited to drowning, hanging, burning, poison, jumping, the use of weapons, and starvation. The ancient Greeks would also tie themselves to a heavy rock and throw themselves into a body of water in order to drown themselves. They would use rope to hang themselves, they would light themselves on fire, consume hemlock, jump from high places such as buildings or cliffs, stab themselves, or starve themselves to death. There were therefore various ways of committing, and the method usually depended upon the
In his The Book of Fables, written some time before 17 AD and after 75 BC the Greek author Hyginus, who was the student of the ancient Greek grammarian Cornelius Alexander Polyhistor, states that ancient Greek motives for suicide included intolerable pain, the loss of the will to live, the yearning to be reunited with lost loved ones, extreme guilt, shame, a loss of honor, a feeling of unworthiness, a wanting to be remembered, self-sacrifice, a plea for attention or help, a serious mental illness, incest, and a failed love affair. Of course, there were other causes, such as the need to escape imminent death, suicide as a way of intimidating the enemy on the battlefield, suicide as a way of dealing with the grief over the passing of someone special, and suicide to escape drastic physical pain. But these are only some of the reasons for ancient Greek …show more content…
The ancient Greeks used numerous methods including but are not limited to drowning, hanging, burning, poison, jumping, the use of weapons, and starvation. The ancient Greeks would also tie themselves to a heavy rock and throw themselves into a body of water in order to drown themselves. They would use rope to hang themselves, they would light themselves on fire, consume hemlock, jump from high places such as buildings or cliffs, stab themselves, or starve themselves to death. There were therefore various ways of committing, and the method usually depended upon the