I find it interesting that the reading makes the wife of Ischomachus sound like a perfectly reasonable woman, and yet when I read the first footnote she sounded like a manipulative pain in the neck. In a lot of the things I’ve read, the women do things like have sex with and/or bear children for family members or random (powerful) strangers they just met. Was this normal behavior for the time or is it just that the women who act out get all the attention?
Driving out her daughter and having a son with her son-in-law are not the kind of actions I would imagine coming from the girl I had in my head. Ischomachus painted a picture of a caring, intelligent, and efficient woman.
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