What Happened to a Wife Who Asked for a Divorce in Ancient Athens?

00:00 His Divorce, Her Ordeal 01:02 She Faces the Crowd 03:28 The Exception That Bought Nothing 05:36 What She Walks Out With 09:47 Hipparete Makes the Walk 12:43 One Door, One Crowd 📌 SOURCES: Plutarch, Life of Alcibiades — Hipparete's attempt to divorce and her seizure in the agora Demosthenes, Against Spudias — the one surviving case of a father ending his daughter's marriage "Women in Classical Athens — Kyrios · Hipparete · Alcibiades · Dowry"