This highly original and authoritative account of the Greek family supersedes the only existing study in English by W. K. Lacey (published in 1968) and provides the first comprehensive survey of the subject. Taking account of a mass of literary, inscriptional, archaeological, anthropological, and art-historical evidence, some of which has only been made recently available, Sarah Pomeroy provides an excellent reference for one of the key aspects of Greek social history.
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"Pomeroy makes interesting observations about the effects of the greater instability of the early Hellenistic period on both homosexual and heterosexual liasons."--American Historical Review
"Accessible, engaging, and characteristically sensible."--Bryn Mawr Classical Review
"A splendid addition to the growing list of titles on society in the Greco-Roman world."--Choice
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Sarah B. Pomeroy is at City University of New York.
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The family in classical and Hellenistic Greece had a far greater range of functions and manifestations than it has in the modern Western world. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
double stadium, private orations, liturgical class, ooo drachmas, classical polis, alternate generations Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Ptolemaic Egypt, New York, Peloponnesian War, Classical Attic Tombstones, Roman Egypt, Hellenistic Egypt, Ancient Greece, Demetrius of Phaleron, Xenophon Oeconomicus, Law of Athens, Ancient Athens, Willy Clarysse, National Museum, Zosimus of Ascalon, Ann Arbor, Chapel Hill, Defining the Family, Demes of Attica, Mark Golden, Mogens Herman Hansen, Phratries of Attica, Reinhold Scholl, Sayings of Spartan Women, Alexander the Great, Ann Ellis Hanson New!
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The family in classical and Hellenistic Greece had a far greater range of functions and manifestations than it has in the modern Western world. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
double stadium, private orations, liturgical class, ooo drachmas, classical polis, alternate generations Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Ptolemaic Egypt, New York, Peloponnesian War, Classical Attic Tombstones, Roman Egypt, Hellenistic Egypt, Ancient Greece, Demetrius of Phaleron, Xenophon Oeconomicus, Law of Athens, Ancient Athens, Willy Clarysse, National Museum, Zosimus of Ascalon, Ann Arbor, Chapel Hill, Defining the Family, Demes of Attica, Mark Golden, Mogens Herman Hansen, Phratries of Attica, Reinhold Scholl, Sayings of Spartan Women, Alexander the Great, Ann Ellis Hanson New!
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- The Law of Athens: The Family and Property by A. R. W. Harrison on 8 pages
- Images of Women in Antiquity by Averil Cameron on 4 pages
- The Phratries of Attica (Michigan Monographs in Classical Antiquity) by S. (Stephen) D. Lambert on 4 pages
- On Sparta (Penguin Classics) by Plutarch on 4 pages
- Spartan Law (Scottish Classical Studies) by Douglas Macdowell on 4 pages
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- Plutarch's Advice to the Bride and Groom and A Consolation to His Wife: English Translations, Commentary, Interpretive Essays, and Bibliography by Plutarch in Table of Contents, page 76, and page 182
- Demosthenes: Statesman and Orator by Ian Worthington on page 242, and Back Matter
- Wisdom, Politics, and Historiography: Tractate Avot in the Context of the Graeco-Roman Near East (Oxford Oriental Monographs) by Amram Tropper on page 172, and Back Matter
- Singular Dedications: Founders and Innovators of Private Cults in Classical Greece (Studies in Classics) by Andrea Purvis in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Gender in History: New Perspectives on the Past by Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks on page 50
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