Classical Studies 3310F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Kyrios, Atimia
6 Mar 2017
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Easy and perhaps frequent: a cessation of the desire to be married. A man was bound to divorce his wife if: she was not a citizen woman. Marriage between a male citizen and female non-citizen was illegal after 402: upper classes. Probably would not have carried about the lower classes: she had been taken in adultery/raped. If she is having an affair she could claim rape instead of admitting that she had an affair: the epikleros, where a man was punished with partial or total atimia. There were circumstances in which a man had to divorce his wife: there were no circumstances in which a woman had to divorce her husband. A woman"s (childless?) marriage could be dissolved at the whim of her natal kyrios. Voluntary dissolution of marriage: either by mutual consent or by one spouse acting alone. A woman does not need the consent of her kyrios. The desire of divorce proceeds with the husband.
