Appropriate Husbands In Aristotle's On A Good Women

All things considered, one may assume that the Ancient Greek society nominated women with secondary role despite the long range of tasks they had to and the respective skills they had to possess in order to meet the husbands' expectations. The girls of the age of fourteen to eighteen years old had to play the role of appropriate spouses to their husbands who were approximately ten years older and more experienced. The original document On a Good Woman written by Aristotle is a guide for a young woman that lists the benefits she will earn from her husband in case she obeys all his wishes. The document also lists two controversial ideas. The first one says that the husband and the wife are partners and the other one is that the woman should always
obey the wishes of her husband. The controversy reflects the real state of affairs in the Ancient Greece showing that women had to do countless hard routine work still remaining in the shade of their husbands' mercy and recognition.