Plutarch's (misogynistic) advice to a bride and groom

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Here's an interesting article by Lapham's Quarterly on Plutarch's (misogynistic) advice to a bride and groom from his Moralia:

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—A wife ought not to make friends of her own but enjoy her husband’s friends in common with him. The gods are the first and most important friends. It is becoming for a wife to worship and to know only the gods that her husband believes in, and to shut the front door tight upon all queer rituals and outlandish superstitions. For with no god do stealthy and secret rites performed by a woman find any favor.

 

Forever Hold Your Peace | Lapham’s Quarterly (laphamsquarterly.org)

 

Here are the 48 pieces of advice in their entirety:

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