eitalter_, an admirable
work. The fullest English account will be found in Mr. Gladstone's
_Homeric Studies_, Vol. II. See also Donaldson, _Woman_, pp. 11-23,
where an excellent summary of the subject is given.

[255] _Odyssey_, I. 2.

[256] _Iliad_, VI. 429-430.

[257] _Odyssey_, VI. 182.

[258] Gladstone, _Homeric Studies_, Vol. II. p. 507.

[259] _Odyssey_, VII. 142 ff.

[260] Donaldson, _Woman_, p. 18-19.

[261] _Odyssey_, III. 450; _Iliad_, VI. 301.

[262] Simcox, _Primitive Civilisation_, Vol. I. p. 199. Reference may
also be made to the love-charm translated by M. Revillout in his
version of the _Tales of Selna_, p. 37.

[263] 2 _Nic. Ethics_, VIII. 14; _Econom._ I. p. 94.

[264] Letourneau, _Evolution of Marriage_, p. 195.

[265] _Lycurgus_, XXXVII.

[266] _Ibid._, XXVI.

[267] Donaldson, _Woman_, pp. 28-29.

[268] Plutarch, _Apophthegms of the Lacedemonians_.--_Demandes
Romaines_, LXV.

[269] Lycurgus, Polybius, XII. 6. Xenophon, _Rep. Laced._ I.
Aristotle, _Pol._ II. 9. Aristotle notes especially the sexual liberty
allowed to women.

[270] Donaldson, _op. cit._, p. 28.

[271] _Polit._ II. 9.

[272] Plutarch, _Life of Agis_; Donaldson, _Woman_, pp. 34, 35.

[273] Hobhouse, _Morals in Evolution_, Vol. I. p. 208.

[274] Thus Demosthenes bequeathed his two daughters, aged seven and
five years, and also their mother, to his nephews, classing them with
his property in the significant phrase "all these things" (Letourneau,
_op. cit._, p. 196).

[275] Xenophon, _Economicus_, VII.-IX.

[276] Isaeus _de Pyrrhi Her._, Sec. 14.

[277] _Antig._ 905-13. These verses are probably interpolated, but the
interpolation was as early as Aristotle. The same views are placed by
Herodotus in the mouth of the wife of Intarphernes (3. 119). _See_
Donaldson, _Woman_, pp. 53, 54 and note.

[278] "The Position of Women in History"; Essay in the volume _The
Position of Woman, Actual and Ideal_, p. 37.

[279] _Medea._

[280] Theodota, _Xen. 'Mem.'_, III. II. Socrates conversed with
Theodota on art and discussed with her how she could best find true
friends.

[281] _Symposium._

[282] _Pericles_, 24. Thargalia used her influence over the Greeks to
win them over to the cause of the King of Persia.

[283] Timandra, Plut., _Alcib._, c. 39.

[284] Geoffrey Mortimer (W.M. Gallichan), _Chapters on Human Love_, p.
152.

[285] We do not know the circumstances which induced Aspasia to come
to Athens. Pluta