NY exhibit unveils women's lives in ancient Greece
December 20, 2008 By VERENA DOBNIK , Associated Press Writer
This undated photo provided by the Onassis Cultural Center shows a 2nd century A.D. marble statuette of Athena, sometime worshiped as a goddess of war, wearing a breastplate made up of coiled snakes. A woman's place has never been just in the home - not even in ancient Greece. The proof is in an exhibit titled "Worshiping Women: Ritual and Reality in Classical Athens," a collection of artifacts at the Onassis Cultural Center in New York that corrects the cliched idea of Athenian women as passive, homebound nurturers of men and children. (AP Photo/Onassis Cultural Center)
(AP) -- A woman's place has never been just in the home - not even in ancient Greece. The proof is in an exhibit titled "Worshiping Women: Ritual and Reality in Classical Athens" - a collection of artifacts that correct the cliched idea of Athenian women as passive, homebound nurturers of men and children.
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