Slave-wives, single women and "bastards" in the ancient Greek world : law and economics perspectives /

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Greek scholars have produced a vast body of evidence bearing on nuptial practices that has yet to be mined by a professional economist. By standing on their shoulders, the author proposes and tests radically new interpretations of three important status groups in Greek history: the pallake, the heta...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Silver, Morris (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; Philadelphia : Oxbow Books, 2018.
Temas:
To 146 B.C.
Marriage > Economic aspects > Greece > History.
Women > Greece > Social conditions.
Women > Greece > Economic conditions.
Mariage > Aspect économique > Grèce > Histoire.
Femmes > Grèce > Conditions sociales.
Femmes > Grèce > Conditions économiques.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Reference.
Civilization
Economic history
Marriage > Economic aspects
Women > Economic conditions
Women > Social conditions
Greece > Economic conditions > To 146 B.C.
Greece > Civilization > To 146 B.C.
Grèce > Conditions économiques > Jusqu'à 146 av. J.-C.
Grèce > Civilisation > Jusqu'à 146 av. J.-C.
Greece
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Socioeconomic foundation of the Pallakē institution
  • Pallakē-wife as privileged slave : central texts
  • Constructing the Greek wife : legal aspects
  • Constructing the Greek-wife : ritual aspects
  • "Wife" as a multidimensional status in Ancient Greece : supplementary evidence
  • "Wife" as a multidimensional status in Ancient Greece : testimony of Euripides's Electra
  • Path to Pallakia
  • Single woman as Hetaira a suppliant
  • Wealth transfers in the Greek marriage market with emphasis on the roles of distance and single woman status
  • Wealth transfers in the Greek marriage market : the spinning Hetaira
  • Companionship as an adaptation to the dangerous life of the single woman
  • Role of cults in the marriage of single women
  • Hetaira as textile worker
  • Legal status of Nothoi
  • Share the wealth? : not with (foreigner) Nothoi
  • Case studies in Pallakia : Homer's Penelope as Pallakē
  • Case studies in Pallakia : Hera as Zeus's Pallakē
  • Case studies in Pallakia : Classical Athens
  • Summary of main findings and problems for future research.

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