In Euripides a woman is called an oikourema, a thing (the word is neuter) for looking after the house, and, apart from her business of bearing children, that was all she was for the Athenian -- his chief female domestic servant.

• 在欧里庇得斯的作品中，妻子被称为oikurema，即用来照管家务的一种物件（这个词是一个中性名词），所以在雅典人看来，妻子除生育子女以外，不过是一个婢女的头领而已。