Volume 1

History of the female sex; comprising a view of the habits, manners, and influence of women, among all nations, from the earliest ages to the present time / Translated from the German of C. Meiners. By Frederic Shoberl.

  • Christoph Meiners
Date:
1808
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Credit: History of the female sex; comprising a view of the habits, manners, and influence of women, among all nations, from the earliest ages to the present time / Translated from the German of C. Meiners. By Frederic Shoberl. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    quarter of tlie town. After the deliver- ance of the city, the female patriots who had fallen were interred near the ])ublic road, that posterity and strangers who })assed that vvay might never want a rne- morlal of their virtue. The surviving heroines obtained the liberty of erecting a temple to the god of war, and of celebrat- ing the anniversary of the preservation of Argos by a festival, which received the appellation of Ta Ubnstika, the festival of disgrace, because on that day the men aj)peared in female apparel, and the wo- men in male attire. This festival was ceiebrated so late as the time of Plutarch, and the observance of it during so long a ])eriod did more hononr to the gratitude of the men of Argos, than its Institution conferred on the intrepidity of the Argive heroines. . The latter, not content wdth their annual triumph over their husbands, likewise introduced a custom, by which brides or young wives were permitted to assume a beard like a man, when they re- ceived their lovers or husbands in the bridal or conjugal bed. My fair readers themselves will adinit, that never did im- portant Services claim so immoderate and extravagant a recompence as those which
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