Compare the various notions of marriage offered in these texts.Compare Plutarch's model of marriage with that of Xenophon in the Economics (Ischomachus's account of his education of his wife).
Do the pagan or the Christian writers offer women more alternatives?
In what way do Christian communities still promulgate familiar patriarchal attitudes?
In what ways do pagan philosophers offer women alternative identities and in what way do they repeat gestures that you have seen earlier?