Women have been segregated by men throughout all of history, especially while the earliest greek literatures were being written. All examples of greek literature show distinct social-differences between men and women. To put it simply: women are treated as “... only a nurse, the matrix, the incubator of the seed/That is sown in her by the true parent, the man” (80). Very few men respect women the same as they do men in greek literature and the Oresteia by John Lewin gives great examples of this sexism. Everyone gets tired of being put into the traditional stereotypes at one point or another. For example: Clytemnestra is upset because the Chorus judges her and “[threatens her] with exile” (42) even though “[they] should have said those words
