[1] Demosthenes _In Neaeram_, 122. [Greek: Tas men gar hetairas hedones henek' echomen, tas de pallakas tes kath' hemeran therapeias tou somatos, tas de gynaikas tou paidopoieisthai gnesios kai ton endon zylaka pisten echein]. As indicative of the comparative value of men and women, as members of society, in the estimation of the Greeks, Euripides makes Iphigenia give utterance to the following sentiment: "More than a thousand women is one man Worthy to see the light of life." [2] [Greek: Tes te gar, hyparchouses zuseos me cheirosi genesthai hymin megale e doxa' kai hes an ep' elachiston aretes peri e psogou en arsesi kleos e.] Thucidides, _History of the Peloponnesian War, II_, 45. "Phidias," Plutarch tells us in his _Conjugal Precepts_, "made the statue of Venus at Elis with one foot on the shell of a tortoise, to signify two great duties of a virtuous woman, which are to keep at home and be silent. For she is only to speak to her husband or by her husband." [3] Ariosto, referring to the undying fame of Sappho and Corinna, expresses himself in words as beautiful as they are true, as witness the following couplet: Saffo e Corinna, perche furon dotte, Splendono illustri, e mai non veggon notte. --ORLANDO FURIOSO, Canto XX, strophe I. [4] The nine "Terrestrial Muses" were Sappho, Erinna, Myrus, Myrtis, Corinna, Telesilla, Praxilla, Nossis and Anyta. The Greek poet Antipater embodies the names of the "Terrestrial Nine" in an epigram which is well rendered in the appended Latin translation: Has divinis linguis Helicon nutrivit mulieres Hymnis, et Macedon Pierias scopulus, Prexillam, Myro, Anytae os, foeminam Homerum, Lesbidum Sappho ornamentum capillatarum. Erinnam, Telesillam nobilem, teque Corinna, Strenuum Palladis scutum quae cecinit. Nossidem muliebri lingua, et dulsisonam Myrtin, Omnes immortalium operatrices librorum. Novem quidem Musas magnum coelum, novem vero illas Terra genuit hominibus, immortalem laetitiam. [5] Cf. _Poetriarum octo, Erinnae, Myrus, Mytidis, Corinnae, Telesillae, Praxillae, Nossidis, Anytae fragmenta et elogia_, by J. C. Wolf Hamburg, 1734. See also the charming memoir "Sappho" by H. T. Wharton, London, 1898, and _Griechische Dicterinnen_, by J. C. Poestion, Vienna, 1876. [6] See _Mulierum Graecarum quae oratione prosa usae sunt fragmenta et elogia Graece et Latine_, by J. C. Wolf, London, 1739, _Historia Mulierum Philosopharum_, scriptore Aegidio Menagio, Lugduni, 1690, _Griechische Philosophinnen_, by J. C. Poestion, Norden, 1885, and _Le Donne alle Scuole dei Filosofi Greci_ in _Saggi e Note Critiche_, by A. Chiappelli, Bologna, 1895. [7] _Woman: Her Position and Influence in Ancient Greece and Rome and Among the Early Christians_, pp. 58 and 59, by James Donaldson, London, 1907.