Parq/e,noi iN CoriNtH: 1 Cor 7,25-40 275 enamored of a Philistine parqe,noj, and asked his parents to get the ko,rh for him as his wife 37. • the counterpart of neani,skoj (young man) and its synonyms, some- thing very common in the lXX, as well as in other writings. For example, deut 32,25 speaks of death and fear coming to the neani,skoj along with the parqe,noj and the nursing child along with the old man 38. • the counterpart of gunh, ([married] woman). For example, as was noted above, in Cher. 50 Philo says that sexual union with men for the procreation of children makes parqe,noi into gunai/kej 39. although parqe,noj usually designates a young woman, it also sometimes designates women who remain unmarried at an older age. in Contempl. 68 Philo speaks of old (ghraiai,) parqe,noi among the Therapeutae who have kept their purity (a`gnei,a) of their own free will. Plutarch, in Lucullus 18.3, mentions two sisters who were unmarried (parqeneuo,menai) at the age of forty. the best known group that includes older parqe,noi is the Vestal Virgins. parqe,noj is sometimes used as an epithet for a goddess, especially the goddesses athena and artemis. this epithet pictures the goddess as a young, unmarried woman. in Opif. 100 Philo refers to athena as the parqe,noj who is said to have appeared out of the head of zeus (see also Leg. 1.15). Plutarch likewise refers to athena as parqe,noj in Demetrius 23.6 40. in Themistocles 8.5 Plutarch speaks of artemis as parqe,noj 41, and in Aetia Romana et Graeca 281e speaks of tyche as parqe,noj (see also De fortuna Romanorum 323a). euripides speaks of Persephone as parqe,noj in Helen 1342. Herodotus says that the Tauroi offer sacrifices to iphigenia, daughter of agamemnon, and call her parqe,noj (4.103); see also Strabo 7.4.2. Pausanias speaks of thetis as a parqe,noj (5.18.5) and likewise Nike (6.12.6). 37 See appendix C. 38 See appendix d. 39 See appendix e. 40 Homer speaks of athena as parqenikh, in Od. 7.20. euripides speaks of athena as parqe,noj in Heraclidae 1031; The Trojan Women 971, 979-980; Ion 269-270, 466; Helen 25; as does diodorus Siculus in 1.12.7; 3.70.3; 5.3.4; and Clement of alexandria in Protrepticus 4.54.6. 41 See also De Herodoti malignitate 867F; De facie in orbe lunae 938F. eu- ripides speaks of artemis as parqe,noj in Hippolytus 17, 66; The Trojan Women 552; Iphigenia in Tauris 1230; Ion 466; as does diodorus Siculus in 5.3.4; 16.26.6; and Pausanias in 2.19.7.