SocialGreeceRome

Only landowning, native-born, free men could be citizens in Greece. The population was mainly divided into four social classes that were based on wealth. Greek society was mainly broken down between free people and slaves. Slaves were used as servants with no legal rights. Social classes only applied to men because women took the social and legal status of their husband's. Women weren't allowed to be a part of public life in Greece

In Rome, society was mainly hierarchical. Society in Rome was mainly based upon family, property, wealth, and citizenship. Women took on the social and legal status of their husband's. -->

Society in Rome was mainly based upon family, property, wealth, and citizenship. Women took on the social and legal status of their husband's. Classes eventually formed within the Free-Born citizens class, mainly the patricians and the plebeians. Basic units of society in Rome were households and families. The father of the house, //pater familias,// was the main leader, who held power over the other people living in the household. Women were often held inferior in Roman and Greek society, but they often had domestic roles in a household.