Household Interests: Property, Marriage Strategies, and Family Dynamics in Ancient Athens Tapa dura - 1997

Princeton University Press, 1997-12-15. Hardcover. New. New, excellent, clean condition *** Hard-Bound with dust-cover *** Princeton University Press

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1998. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very good cloth copy in a very good if somewhat dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 253 pages; illustrations; 24 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-244) and index. Contents: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Families of the Private Orations -- Chapter 2. Town and Country, Marriage and Death -- Chapter 3. Harmony and Conflict within the Household -- Chapter 4. Sibling Relationships -- Chapter 5. What Was an Oikos? -- Chapter 6. The Nonkinsman, the Oikos, and the Household -- Conclusions -- Appendix. The Political Families -- References. Subjects: To 146 B.C.; Ancient; Families Greece Athens History; Public Policy Cultural Policy; Anthropology Cultural; Popular Culture; Families Greece Athens History; Greek World; Family Relations history; Households Greece; Athens (Greece)… Leer más

Princeton University Press, 1998. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,700grams, ISBN:9780691015729

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Princeton University Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1998. Hardcover. 0691015724 . Book is fine. DJ has very minor shelfwear. ; Explores the nature of the Greek household "oikos" in classical Athens. Whereas the "oikos" traditionally has been defined as the household of the nuclear family in Greece, this text argues that it had a more fluid structure, taking care to distinguish between the concepts of "household" and "family". The legal basis of the typical elite household emerges in the description of marriage patterns or strategies among the families represented in Attic orations and funeral inscriptions. Property interests were a strong motivating force, with the elite marrying within their kin, primariliy thorugh paternal lines in which property was transferred. The author argues that the household was not limited to "family" or kinspeople. Friends, neighbours, concubines or prostitutes, and slaves also shared in property… Leer más