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"A New Autonomt for Women"  

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4/7/2019 2:08 pm
"A New Autonomt for Women"

" I am ill pleased, because after having piloted myself and your through such bad times and been driven to every extremity owing to the price of wheat....(pg93 first letter) It gave them a sense of Independence or autonomy. They not only bore , but they were now taking care of their Husband's affairs. The Women of the Hellenistic era were also becoming very autonomous in the way of marriage and their own affairs. In the second letter, the Nike, has run away with a actor and abandoned her ill father. Something still saw as illegal, but obviously more accepted then before since the father's letter to the king is a plea of disparity "I beg you therefore...'(pg93 second letter) The Hellenistic age differed in gender roles then before because these things were in heard of and forbidden in previous eras. Commonly women, even in the absence of their Husbands, never had control over land and their assets were over seen by trustee, and for a to elope was less heard of, since fathers usually had the choice to whom their daughters engaged with.

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