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Woman; her Position and Influence in Ancient Greece and Rome, and among the early Christians

Woman; her Position and Influence in Ancient Greece and Rome, and among the early Christians

by Sir James Donaldson

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Author
Donaldson, James, Sir, 1831-1915
Title
Woman; Her Position and Influence in Ancient Greece and Rome, and Among the Early Christians
Original Publication
United Kingdom: Longmans, Green & Co.,1907.
Credits
Turgut Dincer, Karin Spence and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Language
English
LoC Class
HQ: Social sciences: The family, Marriage, Sex and Gender
Subject
Women -- Rome
Category
Text
eBook-No.
67177
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67177
Release Date
January 16, 2022
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.Untitled
  2. 2.WOMAN; HER POSITION AND INFLUENCE IN ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME, AND AMONG THE EARLY CHRISTIANS
  3. 3.PREFACE.
  4. 4.CONTENTS.
  5. 5.BOOK I. THE POSITION AND INFLUENCE OF WOMEN IN ANCIENT GREECE. — CHAPTER I. PRELIMINARY.
  6. 6.CHAPTER II. THE HOMERIC WOMEN.
  7. 7.CHAPTER III. THE SPARTAN WOMEN.
  8. 8.CHAPTER IV. SAPPHO.
  9. 9.CHAPTER V. ATHENIAN WOMEN.
  10. 10.BOOK II. THE POSITION AND INFLUENCE OF WOMEN IN ANCIENT ROME. — CHAPTER I. THE GOOD SIDE.
  11. 11.CHAPTER II. THE OTHER SIDE.
  12. 12.CHAPTER III. RELIGION.
  13. 13.CHAPTER IV. LEGISLATION AND MARRIAGE LAWS.
  14. 14.CHAPTER V. THE EFFECTS OF MARRIAGE AND OTHER ARRANGEMENTS.
  15. 15.BOOK III. THE POSITION AND INFLUENCE OF WOMEN IN EARLY CHRISTIANITY. — CHAPTER I. HIGH POSITION OF WOMEN AND THEIR SUBSEQUENT DEGRADATION.
  16. 16.CHAPTER II. EXPLANATION OF THE DEGRADATION.
  17. 17.BOOK IV. SUPPLEMENTARY. — CHAPTER I. WOMEN IN THE HOMERIC PERIOD. — (1) THE GENTLENESS OF THE PERIOD. — (2) THE DARKER SIDE OF THE QUESTION. — (3) LOVE-MAKING IN HOMER’S TIME.
  18. 18.CHAPTER II. WOMEN IN THE GREEK PERIOD. — (1) ON THE CHARACTER OF SAPPHO. — (2) ASPASIA. — (3) PORTRAITS OF SAPPHO AND ASPASIA. — (4) RIGHT OF INTERMARRIAGE— ἐπιγαμία. — (5) ATHENIAN CITIZENSHIP. — (6) DATE OF ‘ECCLESIAZUSÆ.’ — (7) THE WOMEN OF PLAUTUS.
  19. 19.CHAPTER 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.
  20. 20.CHAPTER IV. WOMEN IN THE ANTE-NICENE PERIOD. — (1) INFLUENCE OF CHRISTIANITY ON WOMEN. — (2) CALLISTUS.
  21. 21.BIBLIOGRAPHY.
  22. 22.INDEX. — FOOTNOTES:

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