This was not limited to Roman women with high social status. Plutarch, for instance, mentions an illiterate Illyrian woman (Euridike) who learned to read as an adult in order to educate her children.111 The papyri furnish examples of mothers who took active roles in making arrangements for their children’s education.112 It, therefore, does not come as a surprise to find the following advice for young widows in the NT: “I wish that younger widows would marry, have children, and manage their houses.