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Household Interests: Property, Marriage Strategies, and Family Dynamics in Ancient Athens
By (Author) Cheryl Anne Cox
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
23rd September 2014
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Sociology: family and relationships
306.8509385
Paperback
276
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
369g
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"