A mitigation of misogyny in ancient Greece: Signifying the home via the veil

This thesis examines the link between the most salient ideologies regarding ancient Greek women and the practice of veiling as a means to convey important gender based information. While leading historian on ancient Greek veiling of women, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, corroborates the use of the veil as a means to divide gendered space by acting as a symbolic veil-house that rendered women private and inconspicuous, my findings show that rather than fostering a low profile in the women who wore it, the veil was very often used to transmit valuable information of specially ascribed feminine values in a visibly discernible way. This study explores how the symbol of the home associated to the veil allowed women to showcase their enthusiasm for the domesticated state and men to gauge a woman's level of domestication by the male dominant majority. The veil played an important role in both the recognition and celebration of domestically oriented women.