Woman; Her Position and Influence in Ancient Greece and Rome, and Among the Early ChristiansDonaldson, James, Sir
History
Woman; Her Position and Influence in Ancient Greece and Rome, and Among the Early Christians
Donaldson, James, Sir
Women -- Greece; Women -- History -- To 500; Women -- Rome
Agis, his efforts to reform Sparta, 35–7
Agnodice, first Athenian midwife, 240
Agrippina, the first, crushes a mutiny, 121
Agrippina, the second, the mother of Nero, at the Conventus
Matronarum, 126;
her character, 132
Alcibiades and his hetaira, 59
Amæsia of Sentinum pleads her own cause, 125
Appius Claudius admits slaves to citizenship, 78
Ares bathed by Hebe, 200
Arete, her influence, 18
Aristophanes, on Aspasia, 65;
on community of wives, 74;
on women, 75;
and Plato’s ‘Republic,’ 215
Aristotle, on unfaithful husbands, 6;
on Spartan women, 34;
on Athenian citizenship, 213
Arria, wife of Pætus, her fortitude, 134
Asia, women elected to priesthood in, 124
Asia Minor, honours conferred on women in, 124;
inscriptions in honour of women, 237–8
Aspasia, her connexion with Pericles, 60;
her immense influence, 61;
on the duties of wives, 62;
and Lysicles, 63;
tried, but acquitted, 64;
the comic poets on, 65;
was she beautiful? 66;
in the Socratic dialogues, 73;
modern critics on, 210;
her portraits, 211
Athenagoras, on kissing, 173;
condemns second marriages, 179
Athens: two classes of free women in, 49;
restrictions on the citizen-woman, 50;
her life as maiden and wife, 52;
strangers in, 56;
the stranger-woman forbidden to marry, 57;
Aspasia’s influence in, 60–65;
treaties of intermarriage, 68, 211;
sons of an hetaira admitted to citizenship, 68;
changes in law of citizenship, 212
Augustus, was his wife a poisoner? 131;
his marriage legislation, 140–43, 238;
rewards for large families, 144
Bacchus, his worship introduced into Rome, 95–7
Bachelors, fined by the Censors, 138;
disabilities imposed on, 144;
in Plautus, 222
Bader (Mlle.) on divorces in Rome, 117
Baptism not to be administered by a woman, 162
Benecke, E. F. M., on love in Greek poetry, 206
Benoist, L. E., on female characters in Plautus, 227, 229, 230
Blandina, her terrible martyrdom, 155
Brandt, P., on Sappho, 208
Breach of promise, actionable in Latium, but not in Rome, 116
Bread-and-Cheesites, heretical sect, 165
Briseis, beloved by Achilles, 15, 192
Buchholz, E., on sexual passion among the Homeric Greeks, 205
Byzantines, intermarriage with Athenians, 69
Callistus, Bp., on marriage, 249–54
Calpurnia, wife of Pliny the younger, her ability, 121
Caracalla greatly extends Roman citizenship, 83
Carfania, woman lawyer, 126
Carvilius, Spurius, divorces his wife, 116
Cato the Censor, on adultery, 88;
opposes Roman matrons, 101–3
Cato Uticensis divorces his wife and remarries her, 110
Chelonis, her noble character, 36
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