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
Marriage:
Greeks monogamists in Homer, 15;
happiness of married life, 16;
obligatory in Sparta for girls, 28;
and for men, 29;
restrictions on the citizen-woman in Athens, 51;
matches arranged by old women, 53;
the hetaira not allowed to marry, 57;
Athenian treaties of intermarriage, 68, 211;
intermarriage in Rome, 81;
effect of Caracalla’s action, 83;
status of the Roman wife, 105;
effect of wealth on marriage, 108, 115;
as a contract, 109;
curious dissolutions of marriage, 110;
consent the essence of Roman marriage, 114;
could be dissolved by husband or wife, 115;
Romans who married several times, 118;
Musonius’s defence of, 137;
regulated by Emperor Augustus, 138–43, 238;
rewards for large families, 144;
large families a disgrace, 147;
effect of marriage on slaves, 168;
two Christian views of marriage, 169;
marriage as a blessing, 175;
the ascetic view, 176–181;
second marriages condemned, 179;
children a burden, 180;
dowried and undowried wives in Plautus, 220;
effects of extravagance, 222;
philosophers on, 239;
between brother and sister in Egypt, 243;
equality of the Egyptian woman in marriage, 244;
typical contract, 245;
Bp. Callistus’s views condemned by Hippolytus, 249–54.
See ADULTERY, CONCUBINES, DIVORCE, and HETAIRA.
Maximus Tyrius on Sappho, 44
Medicine, first Athenian woman to practise, 240
Melantho’s insolence to Ulysses, 198
Men washed by women, 199–202, 204
Menander on Sappho, 209
Messalina, her death, 132
Metellus, Quintus, on duty of marriage, 140
Methodius, his ‘Banquet of the Ten Virgins,’ 152;
on the blessedness of virginity, 178;
on virgin purity, 188
Midwife, first Athenian, 240
Monogamy universal among Greeks in Homer, 15
Montanists, honours paid to women by, 164
Morillot, L., on legitimate and illegitimate children, 196
Müller, O., on Athenian intermarriage, 212;
on Athenian citizenship, 213
Mure, Col. W., attacks Sappho, 207
Musonius Rufus on the education of women, 135
Nausicaa, her industry and accomplishments, 20;
washes Ulysses, 200
Nothoi. See CHILDREN.
Octavia, wife of Antony, her interest in affairs of State, 121
Oppius, his legislation against women, 99–103
Paganism, its code of morality in Rome, 128;
position of women under, 153;
priestesses in Greece, 163;
in Rome, 164;
its ideas of Christianity, 170;
priestess in Plautus, 227.
See RELIGION.
Pallakis. See CONCUBINES.
Panteus, his wife’s devotion, 40
Paris, P., on woman in Asia Minor, 237
Paul, reasons of his sternness towards women, 149–50;
on the members of the Corinthian Church, 171
Penelope, her love for Ulysses, 17
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