CONTENTS BOOK I. The Position and Influence of Women in Ancient Greece I. Preliminary II. Homeric Women III. The Spartan Women IV. Sappho V. Athenian Women BOOK II. The Position and Influence of Women in Ancient Rome I. The Good Side II. The Other Side III. Religion IV. Legislation and Marriage Laws V. The Effects of Marriage and Other Arrangements BOOK III. THE POSITION AND INFLUENCE OF WOMEN IN EARLY CHRISTIANITY I. High Position of Women and Their Subsequent Degradation II. Explanation of the Degradation BOOK IV. Supplementary I. Women of the Homeric Period 1. The Gentleness of the Period 2. The Darker Side of the Question 3. Love-Making in Homer's Time II. Women in the Greek Period 1. On the Character of Sappho 2. Aspasia 3. Portraits of Sappho and Aspasia 4. Right of Intermarriage 5. Athenian Citizenship 6. Date of 'Ecclesiazusae' 7. The Women of Plautus 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 IV. Women in the Ante-Nicene Period 1. Influence of Christianity on Women 2. Callistus Bibliography Index