Woman; Her Position and Influence in Ancient Greece and Rome, and Among the Early Christians - Sir James Donaldson

INDEX.

Achilles, his connexion with Briseis, [15], [192], [198]
Adultery, unknown in Sparta, [31];
severely punished in Athens, [51];
and in Roman wives, [88];
Augustus’s legislation, [145].
See [Divorce] and [Marriage].
Afrania, wife of Licinius Bucco, her fondness for law, [125]
Agesistrata, her efforts to reform Sparta, [35–8]
Agiatis, wife of Cleomenes, [38–9]
Agis, his efforts to reform Sparta, [35–7]
Agnodice, first Athenian midwife, [240]
Agrippina, the first, crushes a mutiny, [121]
Agrippina, the second, the mother of Nero, at the Conventus Matronarum, [126];
her character, [132]
Alcibiades and his hetaira, [59]
Amæsia of Sentinum pleads her own cause, [125]
Appius Claudius admits slaves to citizenship, [78]
Ares bathed by Hebe, [200]
Arete, her influence, [18]
Aristophanes, on Aspasia, [65];
on community of wives, [74];
on women, [75];
and Plato’s ‘Republic,’ [215]
Aristotle, on unfaithful husbands, [6];
on Spartan women, [34];
on Athenian citizenship, [213]
Arria, wife of Pætus, her fortitude, [134]
Asia, women elected to priesthood in, [124]
Asia Minor, honours conferred on women in, [124];
inscriptions in honour of women, [237–8]
Aspasia, her connexion with Pericles, [60];
her immense influence, [61];
on the duties of wives, [62];
and Lysicles, [63];
tried, but acquitted, [64];
the comic poets on, [65];
was she beautiful? [66];
in the Socratic dialogues, [73];
modern critics on, [210];
her portraits, [211]
Athenagoras, on kissing, [173];
condemns second marriages, [179]
Athens: two classes of free women in, [49];
restrictions on the citizen-woman, [50];
her life as maiden and wife, [52];
strangers in, [56];
the stranger-woman forbidden to marry, [57];
Aspasia’s influence in, [60–65];
treaties of intermarriage, [68], [211];
sons of an hetaira admitted to citizenship, [68];
changes in law of citizenship, [212]
Augustus, was his wife a poisoner? [131];
his marriage legislation, [140–43], [238];
rewards for large families, [144]

Bacchus, his worship introduced into Rome, [95–7]
Bachelors, fined by the Censors, [138];
disabilities imposed on, [144];
in Plautus, [222]
Bader (Mlle.) on divorces in Rome, [117]
Baptism not to be administered by a woman, [162]
Benecke, E. F. M., on love in Greek poetry, [206]
Benoist, L. E., on female characters in Plautus, [227], [229], [230]
Blandina, her terrible martyrdom, [155]
Brandt, P., on Sappho, [208]
Breach of promise, actionable in Latium, but not in Rome, [116]
Bread-and-Cheesites, heretical sect, [165]
Briseis, beloved by Achilles, [15], [192]
Buchholz, E., on sexual passion among the Homeric Greeks, [205]
Byzantines, intermarriage with Athenians, [69]

Callistus, Bp., on marriage, [249–54]
Calpurnia, wife of Pliny the younger, her ability, [121]
Caracalla greatly extends Roman citizenship, [83]
Carfania, woman lawyer, [126]
Carvilius, Spurius, divorces his wife, [116]
Cato the Censor, on adultery, [88];
opposes Roman matrons, [101–3]
Cato Uticensis divorces his wife and remarries her, [110]
Chelonis, her noble character, [36]
Children, Roman father had power to make away with, [140];
looked upon as an evil, [141];
regarded as burdens by Christian ascetics, [180–81];
infanticide condemned by Christianity, [188];
the fœtus and the soul, [189];
“nothoi” in Homer, [193];
notable instances, [194];
legitimate and illegitimate, [195–7]
Christ, his conduct towards women, [148]
Christianity, its early influence on Rome, [113];
and on marriage, [147];
women in the Gospels, [148];
reason of St. Paul’s sternness to women, [149];
Christian views of morality: Clement of Alexandria, [151];
Methodius, [152];
various meanings of the term Christianity, [153];
women at first prominent in, [154];
martyrdom of Blandina, [155];
and of Perpetua and Felicitas, [156];
position of widows, [158];
deaconesses and virgins, [159];
women forbidden in the West to teach or baptize, [161];
allowed by some Eastern churches to teach, [162];
views on slavery, [167];
opposite views on marriage, [169];
pagan ideas of Christianity, [170];
Love-feasts, [172];
the “holy kiss,” [173];
marriage as a blessing, [175];
the ascetic view of marriage, [176–9];
of children, [180];
of woman’s nature, [181];
gold, ornaments, dyed clothes, and mirrors condemned, [186];
infanticide condemned, [188];
the fœtus and the soul, [189];
asceticism and the survival of the unfittest, [190];
concubinage of the clergy, [214];
influence of Christianity on the position of woman, [248];
Bp. Callistus’s views, [249–254].
See [Paganism] and [Religion].
Chrysostom, Dio, on women of Tarsus, [150]
Cicero, his affection for his daughter, [85];
on women in politics, [122–3]
Clement of Alexandria, his ‘Pædagogus,’ [151];
on kissing, [173];
on children, [180];
on woman, [183];
her duties, [184];
her dress, [185–6];
on marriage, [239]
Cleombrotus, his wife’s faithfulness, [36]
Cleomenes, efforts to reform Sparta, [38–40]
Cleopatra as ruler, [242]
Clytemnestra, reasons why her conduct was condemned, [13]
Collyridians, honours paid to the Virgin by, [165]
Commodian on feminine adornment, [185]
Companion. See [Hetaira].
Comparetti, D., on portraits of Sappho, [211]
Concubines, their rights in Athens, [51n.], [213];
the “pallakis” and her children in Homer, [193–7];
concubinage among Christian clergy, [214];
a “God-loving concubine,” [254].
See [Hetaira], [Marriage], and [Wives].
Conventus Matronarum, its history, [126]
Cornelia, mother of the Gracchi, her devotion to the State, [120]
Cornelia, Pompey’s second wife, her culture, [120]
Courtezans in Plautus, their heartlessness, [228], [231];
some exceptions, [229–30].
See [Concubines] and [Hetaira].
Cratesicleia, her noble conduct, [38–40]
Cyprian, on hair dyes, [186];
and tinting the eyes, [187]

Deaconesses, their position in the early Church, [159–60];
forbidden to administer baptism, [162]
Deacons, in the early Church, [160]
Dejanira on a husband’s unfaithfulness, [5]
Demosthenes on the Crown, forgeries in, [68]
Diotima and Sophocles, [59]
Divorce: Pericles divorces his wife, [60];
Roman wives divorced for trifling offences, [88];
dissolution of marriage contract by husband or wife, [109], [115];
first Roman divorce, [116];
divorces become frequent, [118];
legislated for by Augustus, [145];
provision for wife’s dowry in Egyptian contract, [245].
See [Adultery] and [Marriage].
Drumann, W., on the virtues and vices of Roman women, [113]
Düntzer on Thetis and Achilles, [199]

Education:
Athenian wives little educated, [52];
the hetaira often highly educated, [58];
Plato on woman’s education, [74];
Pompey’s second wife highly educated, [120];
also the wife of Pliny the younger, [121];
Clement of Alexandria on women’s education, [239]
Egypt, illegitimacy not recognized in, [196];
Cleopatra as ruler, [242];
typical marriage contract, [245]
Elagabalus and the Conventus Matronarum, [127]
Elliot, G. F. Scott, on nakedness and morality, [204]
Epiphanius on the Collyridians, [165]
Erinna, pupil of Sappho, [43]
Eubœa and treaty of intermarriage with Athens, [68], [211]
Euripides, on women, [10];
on Spartan women, [33]

Felicitas, story of her martyrdom, [156]
Finck, H. T., on nudity and bathing, [205]
Furtwängler, A., on portraits of Sappho and Aspasia, [211]

Gladstone, W. E., on Homeric women, [11n.];
on men washed by women, [200–202]
Gracchus, Tiberius, his affection for his wife, [85]
Greece, ancient, honour paid to priestesses in, [163];
sexual passion in, [205]
Greece, modern, early maturity of woman in, [54]
Greeks, their standard of conduct, [3];
views of love, [4];
their admiration of beauty of form, [7], [22].
See [Athens], [Homer], and [Sparta].
Gregory Thaumaturgus, on chastity in woman, [183]

Hebe bathes Ares, [200]
Helen, not blamed by men, [13];
washes Ulysses, [202]
Hetaira, companion or stranger-woman, forbidden in Athens to marry, [57];
her interest in philosophy and politics, [58];
Aspasia, [62–7];
children of an hetaira sometimes admitted to citizenship, [68];
influence on notable men, [71];
her social position, [213–214].
See [Concubines], [Courtezans], [Marriage], and [Wives].
Hippolytus on Bp. Callistus and marriage, [249]
Hipponax on women, [9]
Homer:
his women submissive, [11];
no flirtation in, [14];
Greeks monogamists in, [15];
married life in, [16];
influence of women, [17];
wives and concubines and their children, [192–7];
Melantho’s insolence, [198];
Thetis’s advice to Achilles, ib.;
men washed by women, [199–202]
Horace on the Lex Julia de adulterio cohibendo, [146]
Hortensia’s speech to the triumvirs, [105]
Hortensius marries Cato’s wife, [110]
Hruza, E., on the “nothoi” in Homer, [195]
Husbands, their unfaithfulness tolerantly viewed by Greek wives, [6];
power over their wives in Rome, [87];
poisoned by their wives, [89], [91];
wives bought by, [105].
See [Marriage] and [Wives].
Hyperides, his defence of Phryne, [7]

Illegitimacy. See [Children].