What can an Attic mother, without knowledge, without experience, give to her daughters?
Naught but her own ignorance.

And so it is, that a Hellene, seldom satisfied with the society of his lawful, but, mentally, inferior wife, turns for satisfaction to those courtesans, who, from their constant intercourse with men, have acquired knowledge, and well understand how to adorn it with the flowers of feminine grace, and to season it with the salt of a woman's more refined and delicate wit.

In Egypt it is different.

A young girl is allowed to associate freely with the most enlightened men.

Youths and maidens meet constantly on festive occasions, learn to know and love one another.