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Women in Ancient Greek Society Homer and Greek society were strongly machista. The Odyssey presents stories in which men were heroes, won wars and governed countries while females were in second plan and didn’t play any expressive role in society. Women were always servants of the men throughout the poem; their existence was based on serving the men in the book. Culture in ancient Greece suggested that women had lower status than men. The …

…only a way to create citizen. Even though Odysseus was not too machista you notice those characteristics in their relationship. Machismo has lasted to our present day. Of course there has been major progress since the days of the ancient Greeks, now it is illegal to consider women lower then men in any sense (at least in some countries), yet most of us still see the world through the machista curtain that covers our eyes.