Discuss womens labor in the ancient world

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For this module discussion, you will answer all of the following questions and reply to 2 other students. Please complete all posts and replies by the end of the module date. Please check out the grading rubric for more details.

Footnotes inside the answer and a bibliography at the end are required for each of the answers. Use the Chicago Manual of Style for guidelines.

Students may choose any of the following questions to answer each week, but should answer all questions in total for this module:

1. What did you find most interesting about the artifacts at the Met you toured in this module? Be specific in your answer. Describe at least 2 different artifacts that you observed.

( The 2 artifacts are an Athenian water jar, ca. 450 BCE and a Female dancer, China, second century BCE.)

2. Discuss women's labor in the ancient world. Use the article "The most silent women of Greece and Rome: rural labour and women's life in the ancient world" for specific examples and detail. Use at least 3 examples from the article.

Sources for these questions:

Merry E. Weisner-Hanks. Gender In History: Global Perspectives. 3rd ed. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2022. (Chapter 5)

The most silent women of Greece and Rome: rural labour and women's life in the ancient world by Walter Scheidel. 1-8.

(Cite any sources with footnotes/Chicago font style).

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