TY - BOOK ID - 78525324 TI - Slave-wives, single women and bastards in the ancient Greek world : law and economics perspectives PY - 2018 SN - 178570866X 1785708643 9781785708640 9781785708664 1785708635 9781785708633 PB - Oxford : Oxbow books, DB - UniCat KW - Single women. KW - Single women KW - Spinsters KW - Unmarried women KW - Single people KW - Women KW - History KW - Marriage KW - Economic aspects KW - Social conditions KW - Economic conditions KW - Greece KW - Civilization KW - Civilization. KW - Economic history. KW - Economic aspects. KW - Economic conditions. KW - Social conditions. KW - To 146 B.C. KW - Greece. KW - Mariage KW - --Femme KW - --Aspects économiques KW - --Grèce ancienne KW - --Condition sociale KW - --Condition économique KW - --Civilisation KW - --Economic aspects KW - Marriage - Economic aspects - Greece - History KW - Women - Greece - Social conditions KW - Women - Greece - Economic conditions KW - Femme KW - Aspects économiques KW - Grèce ancienne KW - Condition sociale KW - Condition économique KW - Civilisation KW - Greece - Economic conditions - To 146 B.C. KW - Greece - Civilization - To 146 B.C. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78525324 AB - "Greek scholars have produced a vast body of evidence bearing on nuptial practices that has yet to be mined by a professional economist. By standing on their shoulders, the author proposes and tests radically new interpretations of three important status groups in Greek history: the pallake, the hetaira, and the nothos. It is argued that legitimate marriage - that is 'marriage by loan of the bride to the groom' - was not the only form of legal marriage in classical Athens and the ancient Greek world generally. Pallakia, that is, 'marriage by sale of the bride to the groom', also was legally recognized. The pallake-wifeship transaction is a sale into slavery with a restrictive covenant mandating the employment of the sold woman as a wife. In this highly original and challenging new book economist Morris Silver proposes and tests the hypothesis that the likelihood of bride sale rises with increases in the distance between the ancestral residence of the groom and the father's household. The 'bastard' (nothoi) children of pallakai lacked the legal right to inherit from their fathers but were routinely eligible for Athenian citizenship. It is argued that the basic social meaning of hetaira ('companion') is not 'prostitute'/'courtesan' but 'single woman' - that is, a woman legally recognized as being under her own authority (kuria). The defensive adaptation of single women is reflected in Greek myth and social practice by their grouping into 'packs', most famously the Daniads and Amazons"-- ER -