Essay On Gender Roles In Ancient Greek History

Women and gender have played huge roles in our history and in ancient films that we see today. We have seen these gender roles in Troy, 300, Alexander and many more. Throughout ancient history, women have showed and have helped us understand more about different ancient Greek cultures. With there role in society we are able to find out more about how each Ancient Greek city felt about gender and gender roles. The roles that women have played in history and in these movies are different and sometimes very similar. It is extremely interesting to look back and find out how they shaped empires and the differences on how they are treated in these different Greek city states. In the Movie 300 the women are “hot” and very strong. They were known for being the strongest …show more content…
Helen who was said to be the most beautiful women in the world was married to Menaleus but Helen is abducted by paris of Troy. The Greeks eventually put together the largest army anyone has ever seen and they travel to the gates of troy to take Helen back and conquer the city. In the movie Achilles falls in love with a prostitute and protects her as his own. Women of the Athenians played a role in seducing men and dictating their thoughts and ideas because of their ability to seduce. They did not have the power that the Spartan women had. Menelaus is killed by Hector in the movie troy. However, he actually survived the trojan war and takes Helen back in which they are said to have lived a very happy married life. Helen represents how important women truly were to these Greeks. Its crazy to think these people started a huge war over this women she tustve been smoking hot. So women obviously played a relatively important role and although troy might not be the most historically accurate film they did not really get across how much women were appraised. It’s crazy and its pretty cool to see how they depicted women with a pretty decent amount of