An Eastern picture.

She is one of the Bible women, as Gadatas and Gobryas are brothers of Barzillai; she is sister of Ruth or Susanna or Judith or Bathsheba.

Perhaps she is nobler than any of them.

She is also the sister of the Greek tragedy women, Antigone, Alcestis; especially Euripidean is she: no doubt she is sister to the great women of all lands.
C1.10 ff.

Xenophon, Moralist.Cf._Memorabilia_ for a similar philosophical difficulty about the will and knowledge.