In Pomeroy, you will read the details of women's life as they were legally and socially prescribed. You will then read several speeches made in Athenian law-courts which bear on women's lives. Finally you will read a philosophical text about the ideal relationships in the oikos or household.
What about the position of women in Classical Athens seems to you most bizarre? How can you explain it?What continuities are there, if any, between the position of women in Homeric society and that in Classical Athens?
Do you agree with Pomeroy that the laws of Classical Athens were designed to prevent women from becoming a source of strife among men, or are they produced by simple misogyny?
How do the speeches made in law courts represent women? Do the women in the speeches seem to be passive and excluded from public life?
Is 'How to train a wife' a realistic treatise, or is it designed to prove the Socratic contention that 'virtue is teachable'?