\[ **BT: [[history--Europe]]** ] --- # classical antiquity (800 BCE – 500 CE) ## classical Greece [[When Herodotus stated that weaving was woman’s work in Greece, but that in Egypt the men did it, his goal was to paint the Egyptians in a poor light.]][^1] - external resources: - ↬ [Greco-Roman collection](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/collection?collection=Perseus:collection:Greco-Roman) - ↬ [Germanic collection](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/collection?collection=Perseus:collection:Germanic) [^1]: Robert Wardy, *[[Wardy, Doing Greek Philosophy, 2006|Doing Greek Philosophy]]* (Routledge, 2006), p. 59.