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\\nWe sat down recently with Associate Professor Rebecca Futo Kennedy to talk all about Ancient Greek women, specifically in relation to Athens.
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\\nFuto Kennedy teaches in Classical Studies, Women\\u2019s and Gender Studies, and Environmental Studies at Denison University. Kennedy holds a BA in Classical Studies, an MA in Greek and Latin, and completed her PhD on the representation of Athena in the tragedies of Aeschylus and Sophocles at Ohio State University. Kennedy\\u2019s most recent monograph is entitled Immigrant Women in Athens: Gender, Ethnicity, and Citizenship in the Classical City.
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\\nSpecial Episode - Ancient Greek Women with Rebecca Futo Kennedy
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\\nIn this conversation we explore the terminology and semantic fields of meaning connected with women in Ancient Greece including some of the persistent misconceptions and assumptions that come along with language. For example, the word hetaira is quite well-known, but what did the ancient Greeks really mean when they used the term?
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\\nHow did women fit into the social structures and hierarchies of the ancient Greek city of Athens? What were women\'s lives like and what does the remaining evidence suggest about how they lived and the meaning they saw in their own experiences?
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\\nWe also delve into the complexities attendant upon understanding metics - foreigners in Athens and what this category meant when you were also a woman. And the conversation rounds out with a consideration of poverty in ancient Athens and the challenges in studying this subject.
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\\nSome Sources
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\\nA number of sources and scholars are mentioned in this episode. Here\'s a few that come up: 
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\\nJean-Leon Gerome Greek Interior 1848
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\\n* Brown, Peter 1989. The World of Late Antiquity: AD 150-750 
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\\n* Cecchet, Lucia 2015. Poverty in Athenian Public Discourse: From the Eve of the Peloponnesian War to the Rise of Macedonia
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\\n* Meyer, Elizabeth A. 2010. Metics and the Athenian Phialai-inscriptions: A Study in Athenian Epigraphy and Law 
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\\n* Osborne, Robin 1997. \'Law, the Democratic Citizen and the Representation of Women in Classical Athens\' Past and Present 155, pp 3-33
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\\n* Pomeroy, Sarah B. 1995. Goddesses, Whores, Wives, and Slaves: Women in Classical Antiquity  - pretty readable, we recommend it if you\'re looking for a way to dip further into this subject.
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\\n* Taylor, Claire 2017. Poverty, Wealth, and Well-Being: Experiencing Penia in Democratic Athens 
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\\nWoman playing kottabos. Painting attributed to the Bryn Mawr Painter, c. 480 BCE
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\\nSound Credits
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\\nThanks to the thrilling Bettina Joy de Guzman for our theme music...'