Citations:gyneconome

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English citations of gyneconome

Ancient Greek civil servant whose job was to apply sumptuary laws and ensure adult women behaved morally

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  • 1600s, Robert Allott, Wits Theater of the Little World (1971 edition, →ISBN, page 94:
    The Athenians had theyr Gyneconomes, the Romaines their Censors,
  • 1859 May, The Journal of Education for Upper Canada, page 72:
    It then proceeds to regulate the transmission or collation of certain mysterious objects; the kind of crown the initiated are to wear, their dress, the oath of the gyneconome, or female who had the women under her direction, []
  • 1956, A History of Education in Antiquity, page 388:
    But the edict promulgated in Magnesia in 196 B.C. with regard to the festivals in honour of Zeus Sosipolis gives the gyneconomes exactly the same rôle as the pedonomes, []