Deaconesses, their position in the early Church, 159–60; forbidden to administer baptism, 162 Deacons, in the early Church, 160 Dejanira on a husband’s unfaithfulness, 5 Demosthenes on the Crown, forgeries in, 68 Diotima and Sophocles, 59 Divorce: Pericles divorces his wife, 60; Roman wives divorced for trifling offences, 88; dissolution of marriage contract by husband or wife, 109, 115; first Roman divorce, 116; divorces become frequent, 118; legislated for by Augustus, 145; provision for wife’s dowry in Egyptian contract, 245. See ADULTERY and MARRIAGE. Drumann, W., on the virtues and vices of Roman women, 113 Düntzer on Thetis and Achilles, 199 Education: Athenian wives little educated, 52; the hetaira often highly educated, 58; Plato on woman’s education, 74; Pompey’s second wife highly educated, 120; also the wife of Pliny the younger, 121; Clement of Alexandria on women’s education, 239 Egypt, illegitimacy not recognized in, 196; Cleopatra as ruler, 242; typical marriage contract, 245 Elagabalus and the Conventus Matronarum, 127 Elliot, G. F. Scott, on nakedness and morality, 204 Epiphanius on the Collyridians, 165 Erinna, pupil of Sappho, 43 Eubœa and treaty of intermarriage with Athens, 68, 211 Euripides, on women, 10; on Spartan women, 33 Felicitas, story of her martyrdom, 156 Finck, H. T., on nudity and bathing, 205 Furtwängler, A., on portraits of Sappho and Aspasia, 211 Gladstone, W. E., on Homeric women, 11n.; on men washed by women, 200–202 Gracchus, Tiberius, his affection for his wife, 85 Greece, ancient, honour paid to priestesses in, 163; sexual passion in, 205 Greece, modern, early maturity of woman in, 54 Greeks, their standard of conduct, 3; views of love, 4; their admiration of beauty of form, 7, 22. See ATHENS, HOMER, and SPARTA. Gregory Thaumaturgus, on chastity in woman, 183 Hebe bathes Ares, 200 Helen, not blamed by men, 13; washes Ulysses, 202 Hetaira, companion or stranger-woman, forbidden in Athens to marry, 57; her interest in philosophy and politics, 58; Aspasia, 62–7; children of an hetaira sometimes admitted to citizenship, 68; influence on notable men, 71; her social position, 213–214. See CONCUBINES, COURTEZANS, MARRIAGE, and WIVES. Hippolytus on Bp. Callistus and marriage, 249 Hipponax on women, 9 Homer: his women submissive, 11; no flirtation in, 14; Greeks monogamists in, 15; married life in, 16; influence of women, 17; wives and concubines and their children, 192–7; Melantho’s insolence, 198; Thetis’s advice to Achilles, _ib._; men washed by women, 199–202 Horace on the Lex Julia de adulterio cohibendo, 146