Family scene in a gynaeceum – painted on a lebes gamikos about 430 BC. A gynaeceum (from the Ancient Greek: γυναικείον, gynaikeion) or gynaeconitis (Ancient Greek: γυναικωνίτης) in Ancient Greece was a building or was the portion of a house reserved for women, generally the innermost apartment. In other words, a women's quarters, similar to the Indian and Muslim zenana. The gynaeceum is the opposite to the andron, or male quarters. The married woman of the household would often join the unmarried women and the female slaves at night when she did not join her husband.