BOOK II. THE POSITION AND INFLUENCE OF WOMEN IN ANCIENT ROME. I. THE GOOD SIDE 77 II. THE OTHER SIDE 87 III. RELIGION 93 IV. LEGISLATION AND MARRIAGE LAWS 99 V. THE EFFECTS OF MARRIAGE AND OTHER ARRANGEMENTS 112 BOOK III. THE POSITION AND INFLUENCE OF WOMEN IN EARLY CHRISTIANITY. I. HIGH POSITION OF WOMEN AND THEIR SUBSEQUENT DEGRADATION 148 II. EXPLANATION OF THE DEGRADATION 175 BOOK IV. SUPPLEMENTARY. I. WOMEN OF THE HOMERIC PERIOD. (1) The Gentleness of the Period 192 (2) The Darker Side of the Question 198 (3) Love-Making in Homer’s Time 205 II. WOMEN IN THE GREEK PERIOD. (1) On the Character of Sappho 207 (2) Aspasia 210 (3) Portraits of Sappho and Aspasia 211 (4) Right of Intermarriage--ἐπιγαμία 211 (5) Athenian Citizenship 212 (6) Date of ‘Ecclesiazusæ’ 215 (7) The Women of Plautus 216 III. WOMEN IN THE ROMAN PERIOD. (1) Women in Asia Minor 237 (2) The Speech of Augustus on Marriage 238 (3) Medical Women 240 (4) Women in Egypt 241 IV. WOMEN IN THE ANTE-NICENE PERIOD. (1) Influence of Christianity on Women 248 (2) Callistus 249 BIBLIOGRAPHY 255 INDEX 269 BOOK I. THE POSITION AND INFLUENCE OF WOMEN IN ANCIENT GREECE. CHAPTER I. PRELIMINARY.