Seducing the daughter of a citizen could be unacceptable, so they needed to turn to working women. And despite the fact girls weren’t supposed to work, there’s each literary and historic evidence that women were typically bartenders and tavern homeowners themselves. In reality, because of the gendered nature of the word normally involved, it seems extra ladies than males owned bars. In conditions where their husbands owned the establishment, wives worked right alongside them, serving drinks.
Greek girls did not have ...
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2021