ROLE OF WOMEN CIVILIZATIONS

Role of women Civilizations Comparison

Role of women Civilizations Comparison

The discussion in this essay will be based on the role of women between the two civilizations namely Egypt and Greece. The role of women in these cultures would be the main focus of the essay.

Role of Woman in Egypt

Egypt treated its women better than any of the other major civilizations of the ancient world. The Egyptians believed that joy and happiness were legitimate goals of life and regarded home and family as the major source of delight.

It was taken for granted in the ancient world that the head of the family was a man. The true meaning of this fact for women varied considerably from one place and time to another and the impact was much greater if the law drew a distinction between a man and a woman. Marriage and offspring were always considered desirable, but in some societies wives were simply domestic servants and offspring acquired importance only when they grew up. Women enjoyed in ancient Egypt, what can be called by the almost complete equality with men, where there is almost complete agreement among historians that the Egyptian women enjoyed social and legal status did not attain the women in any other ancient civilization. (Salem, 2003)

The position of the ancient Egyptians to the birth of the female differs significantly from the positions of many ancient peoples known as the so-called "female infanticide" any buried the girl alive immediately after birth, such conduct harsh did not know ancient Egyptian, as were not the birth of a female of his concerns grief and sorrow, but was one of the concerns of joy, as evidenced by the names given by the ancients for their daughters and which carried in its meaning a great deal of pride and these names "and decided a group" any epidermicula Saad, and "Nanni" ie, those that I plead with her, and "Tahrr Nhns" ie, those that calling her the world, and "cents Apts" any sister of her father, and "Hnot age" of any mistress.

The thought of equality between the sexes were often reluctant to constantly in the history of literature in ancient Egypt and is the advice given by the doctor "Ptah Hotep" the most famous, where he says "If you are wise Take care of your home and love your wife love clean, and fill her stomach with food and ...