The Life of an Ancient Greek Girl

Ancient Greek wedding

The common age of marriage for a Greek girl was thirteen to about sixteen years old; their husband would probably be about thirty years of age and they would be chosen by the bride's father. When a girl went to be marry, she had to bring a gift or dowry for the husband- to- be and their family. The day before the girl would be married, she would have to go to the temple to sacrifice her toys to the goddess Artemis. This showed that the girl was no longer a girl but a woman, ready to wed a man. Toys that Greek girls usually played with were dolls made out of wax, clay and wood; some even had mobile arms and legs. Some also had pottery figures. 

Girls would not receive any education because the ancient Greek views were that girls did not need to be learned to be good wives. Their mothers would teach them how to weave, cook and do housework.      Some girls were able to read and write a little bit but that was very rare.