Household Interests : : Property, Marriage Strategies, and Family Dynamics in Ancient Athens / / Cheryl Anne Cox.

Household Interests is one of the first books to explore in-depth 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, Cheryl Anne Cox reveals it as a much more fluid structure, taking care t...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1998
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 378
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Physical Description:1 online resource (276 p.) :; 4 line illus. 9 tables
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Table of 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
  • Index
  • ABOUT THE AUTHOR