Note 261 — Chapter XII

The late Mr. Gladstone asserts that "It would be hard to discover any period of history or country of the world, not being Christian, in which they"—women—"stood so high as with the Greeks of the Heroic Age"—when the position of the Greek woman was so remarkable and "so elevated, both absolutely and in comparison with what it became in the Historic Ages of Greece and Rome amidst their elaborate civilization." Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, Vol. II, p. 479 et seq., Oxford, 1858. Cf. also the same author's Juventus Mundi, p. 405 et seq., London, 1869.