CLA219H1 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Epikleros, Thesmophoria, Athenian Democracy
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Metic - a foreigner who resided in athens who was subject to the duties -- but not the rights -- of citizenship (ex. they had to perform military service but were barred from the assembly). This was usually either an immigrant or a freed slave. Archon - one of nine athenian officials who presided over the civic, military, and religious functions of. Univira - a woman who had only one husband. Coemptio - the symbolic sale of a bride to her husband in which the bride passes from her father"s manus to her husband"s. Epikleros - a greek heiress, the daughter of a man who had no sons/other male heirs. Because women couldn"t own property, an heiress had to marry her father"s closest relative if she wanted to keep that property. Palimpsest - a tablet coated with wax so that the text could be scraped off and the tablet could be used again.
