It represents woman in too detestable a light.

May we not be pardoned for want of implicit faith in her angelic nature, when such examples are recorded of her perfidy and heartlessness ?" "But she is a fabulous being, Ernest." "Fables have their origin in truth, my Gabriella.

Cannot you judge, by the shadow, of the form that casts it?
The mythology of Greece and Rome shows what estimate was placed on human character at the time it was written.

The attributes of men and women were ascribed to gods and goddesses, and by their virtues and crimes we may judge of the moral tone of ancient society.

Had there been no perfidious wives, the daughters of Danaus had never been born of the poet's brain, and embodied by the sculptor's hand.