"Silence is a woman's glory." Although this may have held true during the times of ancient Greeks, and although the un-silence of a woman is her glory today, one finds within Greek political theory, a critique of the idea. Regardless of that the ancient code for how women should be, especially exemplified in Athenian culture, philosophers, especially Euripides have questioned this idea in relation to the idea of Athenian democracy. I will use Aristotle's Politics, Suppliant Women and Children of Heracles by Euripides to show that although women weren't technically "citizens", they spoke and acted as if they were. Euripides's plays portray women who have the abilities to act politically.

In the Politics, Aristotle had definite criteria of what a citizen is, what they embodied, and why women couldn't be considered citizens. Determination of citizenship was a screening process for the soul in which only freemen would be...