Old dudes

[Maion Maroneios]

wow.......that was.......well now we know that girls back then didn't dream of growing up to get married AFAIK

Frankly, they weren't even allowed to dream at all. As you may know, a woman's role in Greek society was to bear children and take care of the household. No voting rights, no rights to express her oppinion freely, not even any rights of property or even freedom to go as she pleases.

Even though things changed a bit during the Hellenistic Period (were we see Princesses and Queens having considerable power for the first time), women were generally much less free than they are today. No equality at all.

A woman was basically raised by her mother to be a good wife (cleaning, cooking etc.), then around the age of 16 (which was the normal age of marriage for a girl) she was married to a male from another family. The age of marriage for a man, was typically 30. So you see there is already a considerable time gap. Having a good-looking wife was simply a bonus at that time, as the only thing she was expected to do was to bear you healthy children. You were typically "allowed" to have multiple partners (the so-called "Pallakides" or even "Hetairai") apart from your wife. Having sex with your wife only, or loving her as I said above, was generally considered weird.

Maion