Democracy, classical art and architecture, philosophy, and drama all can trace their lineage to ancient Greece. ... Reading the plays of the classical playwrights give us evidence of women as strong, central characters in Greek tragedies and epics. ... This culture dominated the Greek world from about 1600 to 1100 b.c.e., and was illuminated five hundred years later in Homer's Iliad and the Odyssey, clearly following the oral traditions of ancient societies. ... " Not much is known about this time concerning women or men. ... Not all city-states arrived at the democratic stage like ...

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