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See also:GYNAECEUM (Gr. yvvaiseiov, from yuvii, woman)
, that See also:part in a See also:Greek See also:house which was specially reserved for the See also:women, in contradistinction to the " See also:andron," the men's quarters; in the larger houses there was an open See also:court with peristyles See also:round, and as a See also:rule all the rooms were on the same level; in smaller houses the servants were placed in an upper See also:storey, and this seems to have been the See also:case to a certain extent in the Homeric house of the Odyssey
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" Gynaeconitis " is the See also:term given by See also:Procopius to the space reserved for women in the Eastern See also: |
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