... everywheremanifesting itself in natural phenomena: they recognized divinities in the fertility of the soil, in the stars of theheavens, in the crystal waters of the spring, in the rain and in the storm ... theatre, the gathering in the Assembly and in the lawcourts, were almost exclusively masculine. Remarks indicating the inferiority of the frailer but morefascinating sex are even in our day not ... find women at the bedside of the sick and the wounded, acting as attendant, nurse, or physician. Thus it is notsurprising that we should find Greek women preeminent in the art of medicine.In...