Hesiod’s Advice for choosing a wife
Bring a wife to your
house when you are of the right age, not far short of thirty years nor much
above. This is the right age for marriage. Your wife should have been an
adolescent for four years, and married to you in the fifth. Marry a virgin so
that you can teach her good ways. Especially marry one who lives near you and
be observant about everything around you. See that your marriage is not a joke
to your neighbours, for a man wins nothing better than a good wife; and again
he wins nothing worse than a bad wife, greedy for food, who roasts her man
without fire, strong though he is, and brings him to a premature old age.
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