Oikos (family)

David M. Schaps

Oikos (family)

David M. Schaps

Department of Classical Studies

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Abstract

The word oikos in early Greek referred to a building (see Oikos (House)) or to the aggregate of a person's possessions. In the Classical period it came to be used also for what we should call the nuclear family: a husband, wife, their dependents (both children and retired parents) and their property, including slaves and animals. The family in this sense both predated and outlasted the Polis, and although the laws took its existence for granted, it seems never to have received a strict legal definition in Athens or anywhere else known to us.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Encyclopedia of Ancient History
Editors	Roger S. Bagnall, Kai Brodersen, Craige B. Champion, Andrew Erskine, Sabine R. Huebner
Place of Publication	Chichester
Publisher	Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN (Print)	9781405179355
State	Published - 2012

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