to marry the epikleros went to the eldest one. The property that was inherited could also be in debt, which would not affect the epikleros' status. Although...
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heiress of her father because she had no living brothers to inherit (an epikleros), the woman was not required to divorce her current spouse in order to...
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Charondas is said to have commanded that if the nearest relative of an epikleros (something close to an heiress) did not wish to marry her, he was required...
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respectively married to their kinsmen, the nearest having the first choice (see Epikleros). In fact the heiress, together with her inheritance, belonged to the...
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Epangellomenos ("The Man Making Promises") Ephesios ("The Man From Ephesus") Epikleros ("The Heiress") Eunouchos ("The Eunuch") Georgos ("The Farmer") Halieis...
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Zelophehad's daughters: Pinchas and Masei Numbers Tanakh Hebrew Bible Epikleros: comparable custom in Ancient Greek society Numbers 26:33 27:3, Joshua...
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of Sparta, who married his half-niece Gorgo. A Greek woman who became epikleros, or heiress with no brothers, was obliged to marry her father's nearest...
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Ephesia ("The Woman From Ephesus") Epidaurios ("The Man From Epidaurus") Epikleros ("The Heiress") Euploia ("A Pleasant Voyage") Euthydikos Halieuomene ("Woman...
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a daughter may become the provisional heir of the property, known as epikleros (roughly translated to an heiress). Later, it was common for a woman to...
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abuses within the system of inheritance, specifically with relation to the epikleros (i.e. a female who had no brothers to inherit her father's property and...
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adultery, her husband was legally required to divorce her. A married epikleros would be divorced so she could marry her nearest relative. Hearing that...
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Ekpomatopoios ("The Cup-Maker") Epidaurios ("The Man From Epidaurus") Epikleros ("The Heiress") Epistole ("The Letter") Epitropos ("The Guardian", or...
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mother of Pericles and Ariphron. W. K. Lacey felt that Agariste was an epikleros, or sole heiress who was required to have children to perpetuate her father's...
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law that obliges the oldest male relative to marry an orphaned heiress (epikleros). This is devastating news to Chaireas, who is in love with the girl and...
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the Dead") Enkalountes ("The Accusers") Epidikazomenos ("The Claimant") Epikleros ("The Heiress") Epitrope, or Epitropeus Hecate ("Hecate") Helenephorountes...
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Ambracia Epigram of Amazaspos Epigrams (Homer) Epigrams (Plato) Epihipparch Epikleros Epiktetos Epilaus Epilogism Epimachus of Athens Epimeliad Epimenides Epimetheus...
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des Antiquités grecques et romaines". The most notables are: Eisphora, Epikleros, Eupatrides, Helotae, Phratria, Phylë, Prytaneia, Trapezitai, Gens, Hospitium...
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