[Glenn Wright]

This is such a timeless vignette. “No, Sweetheart! I wasn’t ogling that charming young girl. You know that you’re the only girl I’ve ever been attracted to, even though we are well into our seventies and you have given birth to and nursed our seven children!” I wonder if Φίλιννα was mollified or insulted by his poem.

I can imagine an ancient Greek wife asking her husband, “Does this πέπλος make me look fat?”