k women under
King George superior to that of their sisters under the dominion of the
Sultan, and we may hope that in the fulness of time the Greek women of
Europe and Asia outside of the Hellenic kingdom may enjoy, untrammelled
by Turkish authority, the rights and privileges of that religion which
has elevated the sex, and that the Greek woman of the future may combine
the personal graces of her sister in antiquity with the cultivation of
the soul and the enlargement of spirit which comes to women with the
inculcation of Christianity.

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

PREFACE

PART FIRST

I WOMEN OF THE GOSPEL NARRATIVE
II WOMEN OF THE APOSTOLIC AGE
III THE ERA OF PERSECUTION
IV SAINT HELENA AND THE TIME OF CONSTANTINE
V POST-NICENE MOTHERS
VI THE NUNS OF THE PRIMITIVE CHURCH
VII WOMEN WHO WITNESSED THE FALL OF ROME
VIII WOMEN OF THE FRANKISH CHURCH

PART SECOND

IX THE EMPRESS EUDOXIA
X THE RIVAL EMPRESSES--PULCHERIA AND EUDOCIA
XI THE EMPRESS THEODORA
XII OTHER SELF-ASSERTING AUGUSTAE--VERINA, ARIADNE.
SOPHIA, MARTINA. IRENE
XIII BYZANTINE EMPRESSES--THEODORA II. THEOPHANO.
ZOE. THEODORA III.
XIV THE PRINCESSES OF THE COMNENI
XV WOMANHOOD OF THE BYZANTINE DECADENCE

List of Illustrations

SUBJECT ARTIST

Seeking shelter _Luc Oliver Merson_
Christ and the daughter of Jairus _Albert Keller_
Christians in the arena _L.P.de Laubadere_
Famine and pestilence _A. Hirschl_
The legend of the roses _J. Nogales_
Byzantine interior, ninth century _S. Baron_

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