Citations:gynaeconome

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

 * 1959/1961, Fragments of Attic Comedy, volume 2, page 645:
 * That it was the custom of the Gynaeconomes or Censors of Women to have an eye to dinner-parties and enquire whether the number of the guests was within the legal limit, appears
 * 1990, Studia Graeca et Latina Gothoburgensia (Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis), volume 2, volume 53, page 68:
 * The documentation on the gynaeconomes has been collected by Wehrli[.]