Woman; Her Position and Influence in Ancient Greece and Rome, and among the Early Christians

CONTENTS

BOOK I. The Position and Influence of Women in Ancient Greece
I. Preliminary
II. Homeric Women
III. The Spartan Women
IV. Sappho
V. Athenian Women

BOOK II. The Position and Influence of Women in Ancient Rome
I. The Good Side
II. The Other Side
III. Religion
IV. Legislation and Marriage Laws
V. The Effects of Marriage and Other Arrangements

BOOK III. THE POSITION AND INFLUENCE OF WOMEN IN EARLY CHRISTIANITY
I. High Position of Women and Their Subsequent Degradation
II. Explanation of the Degradation

BOOK IV. Supplementary
I. Women of the Homeric Period
1. The Gentleness of the Period
2. The Darker Side of the Question
3. Love-Making in Homer's Time
II. Women in the Greek Period
1. On the Character of Sappho
2. Aspasia
3. Portraits of Sappho and Aspasia
4. Right of Intermarriage
5. Athenian Citizenship
6. Date of 'Ecclesiazusae'
7. The Women of Plautus
III. Women in the Roman Period
1. Women in Asia Minor
2. The Speech of Augustus on Marriage
3. Medical Women
4. Women in Egypt
IV. Women in the Ante-Nicene Period
1. Influence of Christianity on Women
2. Callistus

Bibliography
Index