... no reputation to lose, apart from a professional one. Twice in tragedy (Sophocles' Electra and Antigone) women are bluntly ordered to go indoors, which is their appropriate place. Jebb, commenting on Antigone 579, quotes a poetic fragment: 'Nor permit her to be seen outside the house before her marriage'4, and he quotes from the Lysistrata of Aristophanes: 'it is difficult for a (married) woman to escape from ... ...

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