Families in Classical and Hellenistic Greece

Download or read book Families in Classical and Hellenistic Greece written by Sarah B. Pomeroy and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1997 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.