Punishments related to rape were much less severe than those related to adultery. According to Euphiletos, the rapist had to pay double the damages. However, torture, imprisonment and death were not considered appropriate penalties for this crime. Women who had been raped did not suffer punishment and it was not necessary for their husband to divorce them (Carey, np). Euphiletus describes the Athenians' reasoning for regarding adultery as a more heinous crime by saying: "The assumption is that those who achieve their goals by force are hated by those they have violated, while seducers so corrupt the souls of their victims to be made others". men's wives have more intimacy with them than with their husbands" (Lysias, 33). While rape primarily affects the victim, adultery disturbs both the victim and the husband because it damages the bond between husband and wife. Therefore, adultery was seen as more ruthless and destructive due to its effects on man