Roger Just Women in Athenian Law and Life Review
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70 Book REVIEWSICOMPTES RENDUS identified officials, contain the evidence, and the indices of persons, tribes/demes, and of problematic documents help the reader to find his or her way, not easily but securely. I take looked upward many of my friends and favorites, and I have found them well treated. Develin, with all his modesty, uses his own judgment, and it is good. A.East. RAUBITSCHEK Department OF CLASSICS STANFORD UNIVERSITY STANFORD, CA 94350 ROGER JUST. Women in Athenian Law and Life. New York and London: Routledge, 1989. pp. x + 317. ISBN: 0-415-00346-half dozen. RAPHAEL SEALEY. Women and Constabulary in Classical Hellenic republic. Chapel Loma: University of N Carolina Press, 1990. pp. 9 + 202. Textile, US$24.95; ISBN: 0-8078-1872-0. Paper, U.s.$1O.95; ISBN: 0-8078-4262-1. These very different books both constitute of import contributions to the study of the means in which Greek men sought to define and command women's behavior. Just sells himself short by casting his work (in the preface) equally substantially a survey; in fact his approach is thoughtful and creative. Sealey, the more seasoned scholar, offers anything but an overview. His rambling and witty manner ranges amiably over variegated terrain stretching from Homeric verse to the Roman Democracy (discussed past fashion of comparing). Sealey is subtle and conscientious in his arroyo to very bad-mannered evidence and offers detailed discussions of highly problematic texts. His treatment of the cryptic state of affairs of Penelope shows tremendous sensitivity to the ways in which her options may have been determined by the peculiarities of her state of affairs as an older adult female with a son and may have differed from those of the average unmarried adult female. Inevitably I disagree with some small points. In inferring (in part from Demosthenes 55, esp. 55.23) that in Athens "a married adult female derived her social relationships from her husband" (21), S. loses rail of the possible distortions imposed past the evidence of male person-authored texts. Men may have been aware of (and comfortable with) the relationships wives derived from the social and commercial networks of their husbands, while remaining less alert to the existence of other networks that might have grown up in other contextschiefly , I suspect, through religious festivals, though poor women who got out of the house to do chores or manage stands in the marketplace might have Volume REVIEWS/COMPTES RENDUS 71 developed same-sexual practice friendships in a variety of ways. It is not unusual for husbands to discount their wives' independently developed friendships as lightweight and potentially pernicious gossipy associations in no manner comparable to the serious bonding of hard-working males. Hither S. forgets, I think, the concessions in his offset chapter ("Women in Greek Thought") near the constrictions imposed by the male person-authored testify. Nor am I persuaded that the human relationship between a woman and her kyrios can be compared (where litigation is concerned) to that of modem clients to their attorneys (43-4). Clients whose attorneys do not please them can seek others, or can select a dissimilar specialist to handle each item case as the circumstances suggest; age and form pennitting, many clients are free to go to law schoolhouse and become attorneys themselves. Possibly a improve analogy would be to the relationship of the indigent defendant to the court-appointed lawyer. Because S. has often been perceived equally generally conservative in his social philosophy, scholars of feminist inclinations are likely to read his book vigilantly, waiting for him to say something unforgivable. On the whole they volition be disappointed, but I was puzzled to notice that on the very last page of the book S. concludes that "feminist indignation is out of place in the report of ancient Greece", since, fifty-fifty though the Greeks "may accept been at fault in their treatment of women", nonetheless "it is too late to correct these faults" (168). Here S. has missed the betoken grievously and incomprehensibly. Information technology is implicit in the writings of all feminist scholars-and explicit in the writings of some-that the attitudes they have sought to identify in by generations are part and parcel of a long historical tradition that has entailed the subjugation and exploitation of females...
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