Citations:gynaeconome

See also: Citations:gyneconome and Citations:gynæconome

English citations of gynaeconome

Ancient Greek civil servant whose job was to apply sumptuary laws and ensure adult women behaved morally

• 1959/1961, Fragments of Attic Comedy, volume 2, page 645:

  That it was the custom of the Gynaeconomes or Censors of Women to have an eye to dinner-parties and enquire whether the number of the guests was within the legal limit, appears […]

• 1990, Studia Graeca et Latina Gothoburgensia (Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis), volume 2, volume 53, page 68:

  The documentation on the gynaeconomes has been collected by Wehrli[.]

• 1911, William Scott Ferguson, Hellenistic Athens: An Historical Essay, page 46:

  The gynaeconomi had full authority to impose fines , but the larger questions involved in the sumptuary laws , and in all probability any judicial decisions , were reserved for the Areopagus , to which the old censorial powers were thus […]

• 1871, Ernst Curtius, The History of Greece, page 428:

  The Furthermore a substitute was doubtless found for the superintendence of public life , and particularly of the education of the young , which formed so important a part of the duties of the Areopagites ; and it is and Gynaeconomi […]

• 1911, John Franklin Jameson, Henry Eldridge Bourne, Robert Livingston Schuyler, The American Historical Review, page 9:

  Instead of emancipating women Athens appointed gynaeconomi to restrict and regulate their appearances abroad . Instead of loosening the conventions of social life Athens drafted a new set of sumptuary laws . The precepts of Plato now […]

• 1920, Smith College Classical Studies, page 3:

  ... the main intellectual inspiration for the men whose poetry they read ; obtained freedom of cities , undertook liturgies in Asia Minor , and in Athens called forth the gynaeconomi of Demetrius of Phalerum to stay their extravagance .