CLA219H1 Chapter Notes -Boeotia, Cruel Passion, Hipponax
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When he dies distant relatives divide his livelihood. For the man who marries a good and intelligent wife for him evil balances good in his lifetime; but the man who gets a wicked wife lives in misery and his evil has no cure. Females mind being made separate by the gods: comparing types of women to animals, the sow, the house is in disorder and messy. She is fat: she who knows everything on whom nothing is lost. Her attitude is constantly changing: the vixen, the bitch: Texts 54, 56-58, 61, 69, 166: her mother"s daughter who wants to hear everything and know everything. She gets into things she ought not and is always yapping even if there is no one to yap to! One day she is happy and smiling and a stranger in her hus- band"s house would praise her as the epitome of womanhood.
