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- Author: Guglielmo Ferrero
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- ISBN-10: 1530946530
- ISBN-13: 9781530946532
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 0.6 cm, softcover
- Language: English
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"Many things that among the Greeks are considered improper and unfitting," wrote Cornelius Nepos in the preface to his "Lives," "are permitted by our customs. Is there by chance a Roman who is ashamed to take his wife to a dinner away from home? Does it happen that the mistress of the house in any family does not enter the anterooms frequented by strangers and show herself among them? Not so in Greece: there the woman accepts invitations only among families to which she is related, and she remains withdrawn in that inner part of the house which is called the gynaeceum, where only the nearest relatives are admitted."
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- Author: Guglielmo Ferrero
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- ISBN-10: 1530946530
- ISBN-13: 9781530946532
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 0.6 cm, softcover
- Language: English English
"Many things that among the Greeks are considered improper and unfitting," wrote Cornelius Nepos in the preface to his "Lives," "are permitted by our customs. Is there by chance a Roman who is ashamed to take his wife to a dinner away from home? Does it happen that the mistress of the house in any family does not enter the anterooms frequented by strangers and show herself among them? Not so in Greece: there the woman accepts invitations only among families to which she is related, and she remains withdrawn in that inner part of the house which is called the gynaeceum, where only the nearest relatives are admitted."
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