Ischomachos Wife To The Wife's Wife Analysis

What is the basic meaning of the source? The basic meaning of Ischomachos is to show people how the men of classical Athens viewed high class women. It also shows their belief that woman of higher class should stay in the home while men did all the work. What does this source tell us about the values and ideas of the society in which and/or about which it was written? This source tells us that classical Athens valued education only for men. They also valued women who knew how to manage the house which is shown when Socrates asks “if I might also inquire about this-whether you yourself educated your wife to the way she ought to be, or whether, when you took her from her mother and father, she already knew how to manage the things that are appropriate

Why? Although it appears in many classical Athens texts, I dislike the fact that they do not say the wife’s name at all. If they are talking about her she is called “my wife”, “your wife”, or “she”. It’s telling women that men have more power than they do. I also dislike that throughout the entire text it seems that the men believe Ischomachos’s wife is a person of low intelligence and is incapable of many things. To what extent are these ideas limited to the time and place in which this document was created and to what extent do they have broader relevance to “the human condition”? These ideas were limited to classical Athens because over time all women were allowed to work, no matter if they were wealthy or not. They also relate to “the human condition” because during colonial time through the early 1900s women were expected to take care of both the children and the house while the husband was at work. What connections (comparison and contrasts) can you draw between this document and at least one other document we have considered in this course? Ischomachos and the Laws of Manu have many similarities and differences. One of the similarities is that women were expected to marry young. One difference also deals with their similarity of women, although women were expected to marry young they were allowed to work in South Asia while Athens expected the wealthy women to stay in their