Plutarch's essays and miscellanies, Vol. 1 · Plutarch
CONCERNING THE VIRTUES OF WOMEN.
BY ISAAC CHAUNCY, OF THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS, LONDON. It is right to praise virtuous women, 340. Virtue in man and woman is the same, 340; even as the poetic art in man and woman is the same, 341. There may be variety, yet unity, 341. Virtue of the Trojan women after landing in Italy, 342. Of the Phocian women in the war with the Thessalians, 343. Of the women of Chios, 344. Of the Argive women and their repulse of the Spartan army, 346. Of the Persian women, 347. Of the Celtic women, 347. Of the Melian women, 348. Of the Tyrrhene women, 349. Of the Lycian women, 351. Of the women of Salmantica in Spain, 352. Of the maidens of Miletus, bent on self-murder, and how this was prevented, 354. Of the maids of Cios, 354. Of the women of Phocis during the Sacred War, 355. Of the Roman Lucretia, Valeria, and Cloelia, 355-357. Of Micca and Megisto, and other women of Elis, during the tyranny of Aristotimus, 357-363. Of Pieria and other women of Myus, at Miletus, 363, 364. Of Polycrita in the war between Naxos and Miletus, 364-366. Of Lampsace, 366. Of Aretaphila, and how she delivered Cyrene from tyranny, 367-371. Of Camma the Galatian, 372. Of Stratonica of Galatia, 373. Of Chiomara of Galatia, 374. Of the women of Pergamus, 374. Of Timoclea at the taking of Thebes, 376. Of Eryxo of Cyrene, 378. Of Xenocrita of Cumae, 380. Of Pythes the Lydian and his wife, 382. BY THOMAS CREECH, A.M., OF WADHAM COLLEGE IN OXFORD.
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