| Show plato AND PLUTARCH their views of woman as compared mentally with man to the what do you think editor sir the belief still lingers that the ancient greeks and romans regarded woman as an inferior creature and that she was useful only as a breeder 1 of men historians tell us it is quite true that woman did not enjoy in greece position of equality and freedom she had bad in egypt mesopotamia and apparently crete however as prof mahaffy points i out quite early in greek life a movement began for the removal of wrongs and disabilities suffered by woman plato eloquently pleaded that woman had bad though in a less developed form the same faculties as man and ought to have the samei education I 1 ti uca tion her supposed unfitness for political life he caustically ridiculed plutarch maintained tha charwoman woman was mentally and morally equal to man and ought to have the same education as plato had said ile he denied that I 1 the moral law should be interpreted more liberally in the thi case of a maii mai than a woman which h belief we moderns would do well to weigh and consider it is not true that the gi greeks beeks and romans omans had bad no true concept of the home the splendid story of ulysses and vc the parting of hector end demon demonstrate strat e that a true conception of home existed among the greeks before the lish ment of christianity the roman matron commanded the admiration and respect of the then known world the fight which agitated england and america in the last half 0 of f tile the nineteenth century cen lury as has already been stated really began and reached important proportions in athens in the fourth century before christ educated greeks realized that the position of woman was unfair anti and unjust |
