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Mitchell 1870-1925 Carroll. Greek Women
Greek Women
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In all ages and in all countries. VOLUME I
GREEK WOMEN
by. MITCHELL CARROLL, Ph.D
Professor of Classical Philology in the George Washington University
Illustrated
GENERAL INTRODUCTION
PREFACE
I. GREEK WOMEN
II. WOMANHOOD IN THE HEROIC AGE
III. WOMEN OF THE ILIAD
IV. WOMEN OF THE ODYSSEY
V. THE LYRIC AGE
VI. SAPPHO
VII. THE SPARTAN WOMAN
VIII. THE ATHENIAN WOMAN
IX. ASPASIA
X. APHRODITE PANDEMUS
XI. THE WOMAN QUESTION IN ANCIENT ATHENS
XII. GREEK WOMAN IN RELIGION
XIII. GREEK WOMEN AND THE HIGHER EDUCATION
XIV. THE MACEDONIAN WOMAN
XV. THE ALEXANDRIAN WOMAN
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Mitchell Carroll
Published by Good Press, 2021
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The social manners of the time, and especially the elevated position of the matron, may be gathered from Homer's account of Telemachus's reception at the palace of King Menelaus in Sparta. He and his friend Pisistratus are conducted into the great hall, where, after having bathed and anointed themselves and put on fresh raiment, they are received by their host, Menelaus. They are placed on chairs beside him, and a repast is brought, of which they are invited to partake. Menelaus does not yet know who his guests are, but he has observed that Telemachus weeps when Odysseus is mentioned in conversation.
While he is pondering on this, Helen comes forth into the hall from her "fragrant vaulted chamber" in the inner or woman's part of the house. With her are three handmaids, one of whom sets for her the well-wrought chair, a second brings a rug of soft wool, while the third places at her side a silver basket on wheels, across which is laid a golden distaff charged with wool of violet blue. Helen immediately takes a leading part in the entertainment of the guests, one of whom, with woman's intuition, she is the first to recognize, and they converse far into the night. Then good cheer is spread before them, and Helen casts into the wine whereof they drink "a drug to lull all pain and anger and bring forgetfulness to every sorrow." Presently Helen bids her handmaids show with torches the guests to their beds beneath the corridors, where bedsteads have been set with purple blankets and coverlets and thin mantles upon them.
