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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Drifter Bob" data-source="post: 1670547" data-attributes="member: 17723">You raise a good point, but you have to understand though that Greece was an example of a society very much in transition from a more sexually egalitarian form to an eastern influenced patriarchal society.  Thats why you see male sky gods (zeuss, apollo) replacing female sea (aphrodite), earth (demeter) and nature (artemis) gods.And as for Delphi, which incidetnally was always a female preisthood as i understand it, they were very, very powerful, with a spy network across the land.  They essentially pushed Athens and Sparta into fighting for Greek independence in the Persian wars, among many other feats.  Though they did not necessarily fight for female equality, they obviously wielded a great deal of influence.Herodotus incidentally mentions a female greek pirate capitan from one of the Islands who lead a squadron of ships at Salamis (I think).  Though she fought unwisely on the Persian side, she did fight her way out and escape the massacre if I remember correctly.DB</blockquote>