Citations:gyneconome

See also: Citations:gynæconome and Citations:gynaeconome

English citations of gyneconome

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

• 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, […]