Royal and aristocratic Achaemenid women were given an education in subjects which did not appear compatiple with seclusion, such as horsemanship and archery. It does not appear that royal and aristocratic women lived in seclusion from men, since it is known that they appeared in public and traveled with their husbands, participated in hunting and in feasts: at least the chief wife of a royal or aristocratic man did not live in seclusion, as it is clearly stated that wives customarily accompanied their husbands to dinner banquets, although they left the banquet when the “women entertainers” of the harem came in and the men began "merrymaking".