Gender Roles in Art and Plays in Ancient Greece and Crete

I have actually decided to broaden my subject to gender roles portrayed in Ancient Greek and Cretan art and plays and to just dedicate a paragraph or two to the  blurred gender because I was struggling with finding information. One of the books I am reading is The Blade and the Chalice by Riane Eisler which is about cultural origins and gender roles in those cultures. It says that in readings you'll find famous Greeks such as Pythagoras and Socrates were taught by priestesses and that leaders from all over the Greek world sought out the advice of a priestess named Pythoness but other than that women are hardly mentioned in writing. We already know women had no civil or political rights. Yet in Homer's Odyssey women play some of the most powerful roles. It also mentions people referring back to old creation stories of a great mother creating the world instead of their modern gods and goddesses. Women liked to revert back to old stories past down from generations talking about an earlier, less oppressive time. Its interesting to discover how the women dealt with it. We all learned about the female role in Ancient Greece and their lack of rights but never how they responded or that not all the men agreed. I need to do more research though and possibly narrow down my topic again.