... as labourers in workshops or foundries or on construction schemes. Literature exhibits us a thoroughly masculine society. family life played no part. Timeworn comedy deals almost exhaustively with men, the Symposium both of Plato and Xenophon make it exceedingly evident that when a gentleman entertained friends the only women present were those who had no reputation to lose, apart from a professional one. Twice in ... ...

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