The social, physical and mental expectations of women were very high and very strict. Women were expected to be married young and virgins to their much older husbands (p. 28). They were also expected to have children, especially sons, and did not have access to the legal system in most parts of Greece (Ian and Powell, 28-34). They could not be and were not considered individuals outside of their homes, and ancient Greek texts had an essentially misogynistic view of women at that time (Ian and Powell, 28-32). Hesiod, a famous Greek poet, even goes on to say that women were sent by Zeus to punish mortal men and that they are the embodiment of deception and lust (Ian and Powell 29-32). Additionally, women were limited to sexual relationships within their marriages, while men had the choice of seeking extramarital relationships with prostitutes or slaves they had acquired (Ian and Powell, 35). Overall, the lives of women in ancient Greece were far from glamorous and there was not much difference in the treatment of women based on their social class. The well-off housewife was perhaps a notch or two above the "modest" prostitute, and this was probably because a well-off woman would have been able to receive an education due to her family's status. Whatever the circumstances, it seems that women had no place or value in ancient Greece except to bear children and have children.