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The Family in Greek History

Cynthia B. Patterson

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ISBN 9780674005686

Publication Date: 05/15/2001

304 pages

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Introduction
1. The Nineteenth-Century Paradigm of Greek Family History
2. The Family in Homer and Hesiod
3. Early Greek Law and the Family
4. Marriage and Adultery in Democratic Athens
5. Adultery Onstage and in Court
6. Public and Private in Early Hellenistic Athens
Conclusion
Notes
Index

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