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Headword:
*)epi/klhros
Adler number: epsilon,2385
Translated headword: epikleros, heiress
Vetting Status: high
Translation: The Athenians had a law [or: custom] that when there was a legitimate daughter and a
nothos son,[1] the
nothos did not inherit the family property. Alternatively [the term
epikleros means] she who has no other siblings as fellow
kleros-inheritors, but is the sole
kleros-inheritor. Since it was not possible for
nothoi to inherit the
kleros, they gave [her] control of the money. It was Attic law [or: custom] to bequeath [money] to
nothoi up to the sum of 5 minas.
Agathias [writes]: "women were walking up and down the battlements: some of them mothers of the dead, some heiresses, some with a connection of another kind".[2]
Greek Original:*)epi/klhros: no/mos h)=n *)aqhnai/ois gnhsi/as me\n ou)/shs qugatro/s, no/qou de\ ui(ou=, mh\ klhronomei=n to\n no/qon ta\ patrw=|a. h)\ h( mh\ e)/xousa a)delfou\s e(te/rous sugklhrono/mous, a)lla\ monoklhrono/mos ou)=sa. e)peidh\ de\ ou)k e)ch=n toi=s no/qois klhronomei=n, ta)rgu/rion dia\ xeiro\s e)di/dosan. no/mos de\ h)=n *)attiko/s, toi=s no/qois me/xri e# mnw=n katalimpa/nein. *)agaqi/as: e)foi/twn de\ gunai=kes a)na\ tou\s promaxw=nas, tuxo\n me\n mhte/res ou)=sai tw=n a)polwlo/twn, tuxo\n de\ e)pi/klhroi, tuxo\n de\ o(tw|ou=n a)/llw| tro/pw| me/llon au)tai=s.
Notes:
For primary note, and bibliography, see under
epsilon 2384.
[1] e.g. born out of wedlock; cf. generally
nu 448,
nu 449.
[2]
Agathias,
Histories 1.12; cf.
epsilon 3875. The women of
Luca (present-day
Lucca, in central Italy) react to the execution (which they soon discover to have been feigned) of prominent Lucchesi citizens by the Byzantine general Narses (cf.
nu 42); cf. Frendo (20) and, for additional background,
alpha 457,
alpha 1709, and
epsilon 917.
Reference:
J.D. Frendo, trans., Agathias: The Histories, (Berlin 1975)
Keywords: biography; children; comedy; daily life; definition; economics; ethics; geography; historiography; history; law; military affairs; women
Translated by: David Whitehead on 5 November 2007@06:20:07.
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