“... The second-century Stoic Hierocles agreed with the dominant perspective in placing wives over domestic and husbands over public activities but protested against making these distinctions absolute. [...] For many ancients, however, marriage was not just about subordination. Mutual love is common in the sources; not only the wife but the husband could demonstrate love for the spouse. Even centuries earlier, Xenophon portrayed marriage as sharing and partnership. A first-century Greek author describes a wife as a partner in sharing a husband’s entire life. [...] A moralist from this period emphasizes that husband and wife should feel that they share everything; the wife must supply “conversation, character, and comradeship.” [...] Mutuality is clear in the lists of marital duties, although they are mostly divided by gender and need not indicate equality ...”