A train of women involves delays through luxury in peace and through panic in war, and converts a Roman army on the march into the likeness of a barbarian progress. Not only is the sex feeble and unequal to hardship, but, when it has liberty, it is spiteful, intriguing and greedy of power. They show themselves off among the soldiers and have the centurions at their beck. Lately a woman had presided at the drill of the cohorts and the evolutions of the legions. You should yourselves bear in mind that, whenever men are accused of extortion, most of the charges are directed against the wives. It is to these that the vilest of the provincials instantly attach themselves; it is they who undertake and settle business; two persons receive homage when they appear; there are two centers of government, and the women's orders are the more despotic and intemperate." The ancient males were convinced that woman was to blame for introducing evil into man's world. To Greek men, Pandora was believed was the first woman to be both beautiful and evil, a myth that was used to explain evil in human beings. But where does this perception of evil in women come from? To understand this we must put ourselves in the world at 100 A.D and remember what the world was like. Culture most surely played a part in why women were put in the place of evil. Take into account these facts to help you understand the Ancients view of woman's inferiority. A strongly male-dominated culture consigns women to a position of crucial restraint beyond the attachment of their children and households. Greek women were, lawfully and symbolically, considered as children all their lives. Community customs separated male and female activities in every field. Women and their children lived in separate quarters in their fathers" or husband's house. Literacy was not encouraged for respectable women. A woman's major - almost sole - purpose was to produce a legitimate heir; hence she wanted marriage above all other goals.