Fill his belly; dress her back. The ointment is the recipe for his body. Make his heart happy as long as you live. It is a profitable field for its lord. You should not settle for her before the law and keep her away from taking control…. Let his heart be calmed through what may happen to you; it means keeping it in your home for a long time. This excerpt from the “Instructions” demonstrates the importance of women in Egyptian society. Women of this civilization retained their inheritance even after marriage, but were still not allowed to hold certain job positions. The Greeks, especially the Athenians, had a different style of community. Their community was dominated by males who played the most important role in public affairs. Boys went to school at the age of six to learn mathematics, reading and writing while girls were home-schooled to become housewives. An excerpt from Sherman's Poem on Women exclaims: Another is from a bee; the man who conquers her, if he is lucky, because the blame does not rest on her alone. She makes her assets grow and increase, and grows old with a husband who loves and who loves her, mother of a beautiful and respectable family... Women like her are the best and most sensitive that Zeus gives