Museum of antiquity; a description of ancient life: the employments, amusements, customs and habits, the cities, places, monuments and tombs, the literature and fine arts of 3,000 years ago (1887)
Yaggy, L. W, Haines, Thomas L · Des Moines, Iowa : G.S. Cline · leaf 216
y of later times, together with the de-generacy of the women themselves, had made the establishmentof workshops and places of manufacture for this purpose neces- OCCUPATION OF WOMEN. 205 sary. Antique art has frequently treated these domestic occu-pations. The Attic divinities, Athene Ergane and… … SOCIAL ENJOYMENT OP WOMEN (From an anczeiU painting.) and, at the same time, protecting female endeavors; in whichtwo-fold quality the} have the emblem of domestic activity, thedistaff, as their attribute. Only a few representations of spinninggoddesses now remain; but many are the pictures of…
Civilization · Classical antiquities
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