CONTENTS PAGE [Preface] [vii] [Introduction] [xiii] [Woman in Greek Poetry] [1] [Sappho and the First Woman’s Club] [25] [Glimpses of the Spartan Woman] [51] [The Athenian Woman, Aspasia, and the First Salon] [69] [Revolt of the Roman Women] [105] [The “New Woman” of Old Rome] [137] [Some Famous Women of Imperial Rome] [167] [Marcella, Paula, and the First Convent] [205] [The Learned Women of the Renaissance] [241] [The Literary Courts and Platonic Love] [291] [Salon and Woman’s Club] [353]