Wives, in Homer, tolerant of husbands’ unfaithfulness, 5; their faithfulness in Sparta, 32; restrictions on, in Athens, 51; fond of wine, 54; Plato on community of wives, 74, 130; their position in Rome, 84; in early Rome, 87; forbidden to taste wine, 88; severe restrictions on, _ib._; many husbands poisoned, 89; later cases, 91; bought by husband, 105; transferred to husbands’ family, 106; effect of wealth on, 107, 109, 115; their interest in politics, 120–124; Christian view of wifely duties, 176; wives and concubines in Homer, 193–7; wives in Plautus, 220; their extravagance, 221; its effect on marriage, 222; faithful to husbands, 223; model wives, 225–6. See ADULTERY, CONCUBINES, HETAIRA, and MARRIAGE. Woman in Greece: reverence for her beauty of form, 7; her history written by and for men, 8; satirists on, 9; her culture in modern Greece, 54 Woman: In Homer: her meekness, 11; her influence, 17; her freedom, 18; her open-air life, 20; causes of her beauty, 22; mildness of Homeric women, 192; two kinds of wives, 193–7; Melantho’s insolence, 198; Thetis’s advice to Achilles, _ib._; men washed by women, 199–202, 204; girls wrestling naked, 203–4; love-making, 205 In Sparta: legislation for motherhood, 26; gymnastic exercises, 27; marriage obligatory, 28; physical development, 30; moral courage, 31; faithfulness to husband, 32; land held by women, 34; heroic women--Agesistrata and Chelonis, 35–8; Agiatis and Cratesicleia, 38–9; the wife of Panteus, 40 Sappho: her unique position, 42; her friendship with her pupils, 45; praised by contemporaries, 47; ridiculed by Athenian comic writers, 48, 209; modern critics on, 207; her portraits, 211 In Athens: restrictions on the citizen-woman, 51; her life as maid and wife, 52–4; the stranger-woman or hetaira, 57; her interest in philosophy and politics, 58; Aspasia’s life and influence, 60–67, 210; notable “companions,” 71; Plato on the education of women, 74; Aristophanes on women, 75 In Rome: as full citizen, as alien, and as slave, 79; female slaves, 80; effect of the conubium on, 82–3; position of matrons, 84; severe restrictions in early Rome, 87; worship of the Idæan Mother, 94; of Bacchus, 95–97; and of other gods, 97; opposition to sumptuary laws, 99–103; appeal to the triumvirs, 104; in power of father or husband, 105; effect of wealth on, 107; married several times, 118; active interest in politics, 120;