Falsafa

Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

    The Atlas·Groups

    Women and wives

    group · 3 works · 3 mentions · 5 anchored passages

    wives · women · wife · foreign girl · ladies · mere child · woman · young brides

    in the texts

    EconomicsClassical · Greek

    Women and wives are treated as household partners needing instruction and as social observers of gentlemanly reputation.

    And ought one to blame the husband or the wife for that, Socrates?
    chapter 3
    But what of the husbands who, as you say, have good wives, Socrates?
    chapter 3
    And you married her when she was a mere child and had seen and heard almost nothing?
    chapter 3

    HieroClassical · Greek

    Women, wives, and potential marriage partners used to analyze honour, erotic pleasure, and marital friendship.

    First take marriage.
    chapter 1
    Now unless a despot marries a foreign girl, he is bound to marry beneath him;
    chapter 1
    although, when a woman’s lapse is the result of some accident, husbands do not honour their wives any less on that account, provided that wives seem to reserve their affection unblemished.
    chapter 3

    SymposiumClassical · Greek

    Women appear as brides, wives, and as a class whose education and capacities are debated.

    And as for the women, particularly if they chance to be young brides, like the wives of Niceratus here and Critobulus, how can they want any additional perfume?
    chapter 2
    This girl’s feat, gentlemen, is only one of many proofs that woman’s nature is really not a whit inferior to man’s, except in its lack of judgment and physical strength.
    chapter 2
    If that is your view, Socrates, asked Antisthenes, how does it come that you don’t practise what you preach by yourself educating Xanthippe, but live with a wife who is the hardest to get along with of all the women there are—yes, or all that ever were, I suspect, or ever will be?
    chapter 2