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Education for the girls and women were more like household chores. The women would teach the girls of ages fifteen how to prepare food, the knowledge of wool spinning, making clothes, and also the joy and the ability to raise children. Spinning and weaving were the job of women to display their artistic skills. Socrates once advised Aristarchus, burdened with the support of his female relatives, to set them to work at the loom. A woman spinning and weaving was creative and useful. A woman also keep an eye on her son's education until he reached the age of seven, then his education was taken over by the men, and until her daughters left the family to get married. When it was their turn to get married, the daughters performed the tasks they had watched their mothers doing, which they had learned by practicing at their sides. Women were also expected to participate in religious rituals. A man who committed adultery with another man's wife could be killed on the spot, where it was rape or not it was carrying a punishment of a fine. This shows that if a woman "belonged" to another man, any man who slept with her, .
even with her permission, would be punished cruelly. However, if this same woman did not belong to another man, it was okay for a man to violate her, even without her .
permission. Adultery was serious mainly because it brought into question the legitimacy .
of the husband's children. A husband was required to divorce an adulterous wife, and she was punished further by keeping out from the city's religious rituals. Because a woman's .
main role in life was to oversee the activities of her home, the Greeks believed there was limited need for education. It is not until the end of the fourth and the third centuries B.C. that there is evidence of education and schooling for girls in the Greek world. Among the wealthy, however, women learned to read and gathered in private homes to share music and poetry.
