Note * — Chapter V · The Women of Athens.
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The custom of wearing sandals instead of shoes of course aided the developing of beautiful feet.
[+] Not the comedies—they were too broad for refined women. But the fact that Athenian ladies seem to have been allowed to attend the tragedies is a tribute to their intellectual capacities. Only an acute and intelligent mind can follow Æschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides.