On widows and their reputation in antiquity

Abstract

To the end of the ancient world it remained the ideal that a woman should have just a single husband and that the widow, therefore, ought not to remarry. This ideal was reinforced by a fear of the sexually experienced widow and of the sexually voracious older woman. The concept of the virtuous widow was balanced by that of the widow as predator, and both concepts persisted throughout antiquity.

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