...lse in Greece did women occupy what we should call a modern position. The attempt was premature, and the reputation of Lesbos was crushed in the process. Among the Ionians of Asia, according to Herodotus , the wife did not share the table of her husband; she dared not call him by his name, but addressed him with the title of Lord ; and this was hardly an exaggeration of the social habits of Athens it...