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Women and domestic/family life - Coggle Diagram
Women and domestic/family life
child-rearing
Red-figured hydria attributed to the Circle of Polygnotos
440-430 BC
depicts a family scene: the wife of the house hands a baby to the nurse
the loom to the left of the composition speaks to the woman's achievements in the house, and her chair (link to Hegeso stele) reflects her respected status in the domestic sphere
c. 460 BC
white ground lekythoi by the Timokrates Painter
likely depicts a Thracian wetnurse with the baby on her shoulders - she is in black and has tattoos
food preparation
Attic red-figure lekanis
Eleusinian painter
c. 360-50 BC
women preparing wedding cakes
attic red-figure lekythos
woman ladling soup into skythos of a seated woman
Pan painter
c. 470 BC
Hegeso Stele
she sits on a high backed chair, signifier of interior space and her domestic role
accompanied by a slave to mark Hegeso's status as a free Athenian woman - able to impart citizenship on her sons
still referred to in inscription as 'Hegeso, daughter of Proxenos' - valued through her male relatives
she represents a male ideal of Athenian women, and this would have been commissioned and sculpted by men
c. 400BC
Ampharete Stele
400 - 375BC, found in Kerameikos
shows a woman, seated, holding a baby
her name is inscribed above her, and this is a unique case in that she is not tied to her father or sons, it is her name alone
a poem below: "My daughter's beloved child is the one I hold here"
shows the maternal and tender nature of Athenian women
although this is a case where she is not tied to her male relatives, this still demonstrates her function as a source of citizenship or as an ideal Attic woman, a mother indoors
maintenance of the grave
white ground lekythos showing a man visiting the grave
c. 440 BC
By the Bosanquet Painter
depicts visiting and maintenance of a tomb as a responsibility of the oikos
