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Cheryl Anne Cox - Household Interests - 9780691631622 - V9780691631622
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Household Interests

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Description for Household Interests hardcover. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 276 pages, 4 line illus. 9 tables. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBLA1; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 542.
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 to distinguish between the concepts of "household" and "family." The legal basis of the typical elite household emerges as Cox describes marriage patterns or strategies among the families represented in Attic orations and funerary inscriptions: property interests were a strong motivating force, with the elite marrying within their kin, primarily ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
Series
Princeton Legacy Library
Number of Pages
276
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691631622
SKU
V9780691631622
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