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HEROIZING RELIEFS
Euphronius and his contemporaries we frequently find women
reclining at table with men and sharing their cups. But these,
as the disorder of the scenes clearlv shows, were hetaerae,
slaves of abandoned character. No wife, and no self-respecting
concubine would even be present at a Greek banquet. When
a husband dined at home, his wife might be present, but would
FIG. 33. STELE FROM TEGEA.
probably not take a share in the repast. She would sit opposite
her husband, to cheer him with her talk. But for a Greek
wife to sit like the Queen of Assur-bani-pal drinking wine,
and pledging her lord in a cup, would be an impossibility.
Alike on the Tegean and the Athenian relief she is wholly
occupied with her dress, like a true daughter of Greece. The
Spartan wife had more in common with her husband.
HEROIZING RELIEFS
Euphronius and his contemporaries we frequently find women
reclining at table with men and sharing their cups. But these,
as the disorder of the scenes clearlv shows, were hetaerae,
slaves of abandoned character. No wife, and no self-respecting
concubine would even be present at a Greek banquet. When
a husband dined at home, his wife might be present, but would
FIG. 33. STELE FROM TEGEA.
probably not take a share in the repast. She would sit opposite
her husband, to cheer him with her talk. But for a Greek
wife to sit like the Queen of Assur-bani-pal drinking wine,
and pledging her lord in a cup, would be an impossibility.
Alike on the Tegean and the Athenian relief she is wholly
occupied with her dress, like a true daughter of Greece. The
Spartan wife had more in common with her husband.