HIST 3155 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Kyrios, Roman Citizenship, Castanets
16 Jul 2018
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Women: legal and economic status: women and guardianship. Under the ptolemaic period, those who were culturally egyptian were permitted to continue without a guardian. The father or the husband of the woman. Big influx of greeks and macedonian kept this tradition going for those women of. Precise law of guardianship is not known but it is clear that the guardia(cid:374)"s (cid:272)o(cid:374)se(cid:374)t (cid:449)as (cid:374)eeded for all major transactions. In early roman period, the end of egyptian legal forms meant most women no needed a kyrios. Simplification of the rule did not help women. Romans discouraged contracts in the demotic script and had the contracts written into greek so the(cid:455) (cid:449)ould (cid:271)e re(cid:272)og(cid:374)ized (cid:271)(cid:455) the (cid:272)ourts greek legal for(cid:373)s pre(cid:448)ailed. Practical effect-> almost all women were came to be dealt with under greek legal customs. Meaning, they now needed a guardian to enter the contract, including egyptian women who now lost their legal independence, needing a man to enter into legal transactions.
