The ancient sources are silent on women in general and on women's education in particular. It is well known that there was perhaps a kind of liberal education for the daughters of the aristocratic class in some archaic city-states: the fragments of Sappho's poetry are testimony to such a hypothesis. Also, we have some ambiguous sources referring to the education of the Spartan women. All these are well Known topoi in the historiography of women's education in antiquity. Nevertheless, the Greek world changed drastically in the Hellenistic era and even more in the Roman imperial era. The city-states were transformed politically, socially and economically, due to the "globalization" of the Roman empire. All these political and economic changes...