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12 - The Athenian Family

from Part II - Inhabitants

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2021

By
Cynthia B. Patterson
Edited by
Jenifer Neils  and
Dylan K. Rogers
Jenifer Neils
Affiliation:
American School of Classical Studies, Athens
Dylan K. Rogers
Affiliation:
University of Virginia
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Summary

The family was the basis of the Athenian polis, both structurally and conceptually. This chapter supports and investigates that claim by engaging with evidence from three different perspectives: law, drama, and funerary monuments.

Keywords

oikosgenosepikleros (heiress)nothos (bastard), peribolos tomb
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The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Athens , pp. 173 - 187
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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Further Reading

The Greek (and especially Athenian) family continues to be the focus of a wide range of discussion. For the perspectives developed in this chapter, see especially Patterson 1998, Closterman 2006, and Cohen 2011. Humphreys 1980 remains an important and fundamental article for the topic.

Bibliography

Additional resources to accompany this chapter can be found at: www.cambridge.org/NeilsRogers

Clairmont, C. 1993. Classical Attic Tombstones. Vols. 1–7. Kilchberg.Google Scholar
Closterman, W. 2006. “Family Members and Citizens: Athenian Identity and the Peribolos Tomb Setting.” In Antigone’s Answer: Essays on Death and Burial, Family, and State in Ancient Athens, ed. Patterson, C., Lubbock, 49–78.Google Scholar
Cohen, A. 2011. “Picturing Greek Families.” In A Companion to Families in the Greek and Roman Worlds, ed. Rawson, B., Malden, MA, 465–487.Google Scholar
Humphreys, S.C. 1980. “Family Tombs and Tomb-Cult in Classical Athens.” JHS 100: 96–126.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Liston, M.A., Rotroff, S.I., and Snyder, L.M.. 2018. The Agora Bone Well. Princeton.Google Scholar
Patterson, C. 1998. The Family in Greek History. Cambridge, MA.Google Scholar
Patterson, C. ed. 2006. Antigone’s Answer: Essays on Death and Burial, Family, and State in Ancient Athens. Lubbock.Google Scholar
Zelnick-Abramovitz, R. 2015. “Whose Grave Is This? The Status of Grave Plots in Ancient Greece.” Dike 18: 51–98.Google Scholar

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