Saint Dunstan’s Well 116 Salique law 151 Satires on women 141 Scandinavians 77 Scotch 150 Sibyl of Cumæ 55 Sibyl, Danish 83 Slave countries 212 South Sea islands 272 Spain 157 Spartans 30 Swedes 174 Swiss 169 Tournaments 100 Troubadours 105 Tricks, trying 133 Tyrolese 168 United States 255 Valentine’s day 134 Vestals 52 Visigoths 77 Walachians 167 Widows 25, 51, 138, 205 Winnisberg, women of 98 Witches 131, 258 HISTORY OF WOMEN. [Illustration: Penelope at her loom.] EUROPE. Plutarch speaks with disapprobation of the Persian manner of treating women; yet the Greeks themselves kept them under very strict discipline. They had distinct apartments, in the highest and most retired part of the house, and among the wealthier classes these rooms were often kept locked and guarded. Women belonging to the royal families were not even allowed to go from one part of the house to the other without permission. When Antigone, in Euripides, obtains her mother’s permission to go on the house-top to view the Argian army, her aged guardian insists upon first searching the passage, lest the profane eyes of a citizen should dishonor her by a glance. Young girls were more rigorously secluded than married women; yet it was considered highly indecorous for the latter to be seen beyond the door-step, until they were old enough to assume the character of matrons. Menander says: