Classical Studies 1000 Lecture Notes - Fraternities And Sororities, Kyrios, Matrilateral

• School: Western University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: Classical Studies 1000
• Professor: Christopher Brown

Document Summary

Athenian law will be discussed after the break. Women and the family in greek society: history is not just about battles and civic events but it is also about the more private world of the ancients. Historians largely ignore private life but it is as equally as important: women and the family in the classical period (we will mostly be looking at athens) The greek: our word family" is derived from latin familia and this word has its roots in the. He has legal authority over the members of the oikos (especially women): the greeks had an interesting sense of the household as something separate from the world outside. It was often parallel to the outside world but conceptually it was a different world. Example: doors and doorways are symbolic because they represent the point in the household where the private world meets the public. Because of this, there were many rituals associated with doors and doorways.