For the winner a large tripod made to stride a fire / and worth a dozen oxen, so the soldiers reckoned. / For the loser he led a woman through their midst, / worth four, they thought, and skilled in many crafts.
Iliad and Odyssey
Description of prizes at Patroclus's funeral games in The Iliad, explicitly valuing women as property alongside other goods.
c. 8th century BCE
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