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Read the John Boardman quote about women being little more than coat-hangers to Archaic Greek sculptors. Ancient Greece was patriarchal, but not all men held power and some women held status, wouldn't art of women tend to be of those who had power and not just decoration?

by /u/ChloeKesh in /r/AskHistorians

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