Antimachus of Colophon and the Position of Women in Greek Poetry / A fragment printed for the use of scholars

by E. F. M. Benecke

8. μέγιστον θηρίον γυνή.

Leucadia 1. Sappho’s leap.

Misogynes 1. The advantages of a wife.

2, 3, 4, 5. The expense of keeping a wife.

4, 5. A woman’s superstitions.

9. The husband seeks refuge with an Hetaera. (The plot is concerned with a man who marries a woman, and then conceives a most violent hatred for her.)

Misumenus 3. The slavery of love.

5. Platonic love.

6. The lover’s misery.