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Household Interests: Property, Marriage Strategies, and Family Dynamics in Ancient Athens
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Publishing Details
Full Title:
Household Interests: Property, Marriage Strategies, and Family Dynamics in Ancient Athens
Contributors:
By (Author) Cheryl Anne Cox
Series:
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Imprint:
Princeton University Press
Publication Date:
28th June 2016
Country:
United States
Classifications
Readership:
Tertiary Education
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Other Subjects:
European history
Dewey:
306.8509385
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Hardback
Number of Pages:
276
Dimensions:
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
Weight:
539g
Description
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"
