The History of Ancient Greece: Its Colonies, And Conquests 2, pt. 1

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The History of Ancient Greece: Its Colonies, And Conquests 2, pt. 1
John Gillies
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75 Xenopb. Memorab. 1. v. passim, particularly Socrates's Dis- course with Ischomachus.
Digitized by Google ANCIENT GREECE. 155 laws of Athens confirmed this miserable degrad- chap.
ation of women, holding the security of the v ^ / husband's property *a matter of greater import- ance than defending the wife's person from out- rage, and protecting her character from infamy/** By such illiberal institutions were the most ami- able part of the human species insulted, among a people in other
...respects the most improved of, all antiquity. They were totally debarred from those refined arts and elegant entertainments, to which their agreeable qualities might have added a new charm. Instead of directing the taste, and enlivening the pleasures of society, their value was estimated, like that of the ignoblest objects, merely by profit or utility. Their chief virtue was reserve, and their point of honour, ceconomy.
The extreme depression of women levelled the CJ^ecian natural inequalities of their temper and disposi- zans; tion; the prude, the coquette, with the- various intermediate shades of female character, disap- peared ; and all.


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