The place of Woman generally, and in heroic Greece 479 Its comparative elevation 480 1. State of the law and custom of marriage 481 Marriage was uniformly single 483 2. Conceived in a spirit of freedom 483 Its place in the career of life 485 Mode of contraction 486 3. Perpetuity of the tie of marriage 487 Adultery 488 Desertion 489 4. Greek ideas of incest 489 5. Fidelity in married life 492 Treatment of spurious children 494 Case of Briseis 495 Mode of contracting marriage 496 Concubinage of Greek chieftains in Troas 497 Dignity of conjugal and feminine manners 499 Social position of the wife 500 Force of conjugal attachments 502 Woman characters of Homer 503 The province of Woman well defined 505 Argument from the position of the goddesses 506 Women admitted to sovereignty 507 And to the service of the gods 509 Their household employments 511 Their service about the bath 512 Explanation of the presumed difficulty 515 Proof from the case of Ulysses in Scheria 517 Subsequent declension of Woman 518 SECT. X. _The Office of the Homeric Poems in relation to that of the early Books of Holy Scripture._ Points of literary resemblance 521 Providential functions of Greece and Rome 523 Of the Early records of Holy Scripture 524 The Sacred Books are not mere literary works 525 Providential use of the Homeric poems 527 They complete the code of primitive instruction 529 Human history had no visible centre up to the Advent 531 Nor for some time after it 532 A purpose served by the whole design 533 OLYMPUS, OR THE RELIGION OF THE HOMERIC AGE. SECT. I. _On the Mixed Character of the Supernatural System, or Theo-Mythology, of Homer._