Except for luxury and overeating, another negative characteristic of a woman was gossiping with neighbours about insignificant issues, gossips, intrigues and lies. Xenarchos envies the grasshopper the happiness, because the females do not have voice. According to Sofokles, "woman is made beautiful by silence" A lot of husbands tried to improve this ornament by ignoring. "Is there anybody, you talk to less than your wife?" Socrates asks.
Did any anti - male feeling exist by Greek women? The feeling that would compensate male misogyny? Probably yes, although women as each silent minority, could not present their complaints even to their offsprings. Actually, at spring celebrations, there were male and female choirs, which got into fights of rude language and reproaches in the style of Morell and Pepe Blanc or Juanita Vladerram and Dolores Abril, or by south americans the clash of dua Pimpinel, who is surely remembered by sentimental Spanish people, who listened to radio. The purpose of this comparison is not to insult. At the end, everything finished with expected reconciliation and lying around.
The first feministic testimonies are a bit younger and their origin is in the hands of famous authors, who sometimes did not manage to hide the influence of anti feministic tradition, in which they grew up. Let us have a look at example, fragment from Aristofanes Women during Tesmoforia / page 383/ and let us try to read between the lines.
Women, it is not the desire to show up, but the fact that I have been tormented and unhappy woman who saw how how badly Euripides treated you and how he offended you. Why? Is there any calumny that has not been pressed against you? I do not believe that there exists a single theatre, a single scene where we have not been talked about, that we are prone to adultery, flirting, drinking and betrayal, gossips and other sordidly things according to men. As soon as aour husbands come back from the theatre, they look at us with mistrust and they immediately verify if there is hidden lover in closet. And we cannot do anything else we have been doing until then, because such a fear which has been suggested by Euripides to our husbands that when a woman wreaths a garland, they think that she is in love with somebody else, and when a clay pot falls down, when she has a lot of work, husband asks her in whose name she broke it. It is certainly for that foreigner, Corinthian! If a girl is sick, her brother directly says: I do not like the colour of that girl. If some woman without children wants to adopt children, it is not possible without that people will find out, because the husband and wife sleep in the same bed. Euripides slanders us in front of old men, who usually got married to girls, so no rich man who wanted to get married will not remain alone, according to the verse: " An old man gets married to a tormenter, not with a wife!" /Phoenicians/
Except for that, they put to our attics padlocks and latches, so that they can guard us. My friends, we should support it but now we have been restricted the right to be a landlady only to the pickup of barley, lives and wine.
Misogyny is often a part of antic comedies and also of master Euripides comedies. Sofokles reacted to him with a comment: "He hates women in tragedies, but in a bed he is fond of them."
Misogyny literature continues in humoristic tone and fights with a shy pro-women stream, which praises women, for example Plutarchos and other authors. "Sophist Gorgias developed such feministic theories in her "Encomium of Helena". In the area of Aspasia and its sympathizers, we can often find supporters of women: Socrates, Aeschines, Antistenes, Xenofone… although it is still the minority of intellectuals."8