Which of the following statements best applies to the status of women in the hellenistic world?
- no advancements were made for women in the economic fields, since it was illegal for women to handle money
- in most kingdoms the queen shared equal power with the king, raising the prestige of upper-class women in
general.
- while women in sparta were strictly supervised, athenian women were allowed to share in men's affairs.
- as males were preferred to females, lower-class women were commonly subjected to infanticide or were
condemned to lives as prostitutes.