Families in classical and Hellenistic Greece

With this volume Sarah Pomeroy provides the first comprehensive study of the Greek family. Knowledge of the family and kin groups is fundamental to understanding the development of the political and legal framework of the polis, a community of oikoi ('families' or 'households') rather than of individual citizens. Pomeroy offers a highly original and authoritative account of the Greek family as a productive and reproductive social unit in Athens and elsewhere during the classical and Hellenistic periods, taking account of a mass of literary, inscriptional, archaeological, anthropological, and art-historical evidence.

First sentence: The family in classical and Hellenistic Greece had a far greater range of functions and manifestations than it has in the modern Western world.

Year

1996

Language

English

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Editions

2

Pages

272

ISBN

9780198152606

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