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dc.contributor.advisorAustin, M. M.
dc.contributor.authorNeblett, Brandon H.
dc.coverage.spatial88 p.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2018-07-16T15:29:55Z
dc.date.available2018-07-16T15:29:55Z
dc.date.issued1999
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/15441
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation investigates the wealth of information regarding the Classical Athenian family, gender relations, and law found in the inheritance speeches of Isaeus. In examining Isaeus as a corpus of evidence, this thesis reveals both general conceptions of the family and the rules and customs that governed the sexual, legal, and economic relations within it. Inherent in its context-based approach to interpretation is a consideration of the Athenian legal system, specifically the forensic arena, and how it influenced disputes over the transmission of property in the polis. Isaeus illustrates the legal and economic capabilities of female citizens in fourth century Athens, the use of their sexuality as a weapon in court, the opportunities for and restrictions on exploitation within the citizen family, the role of the logographos in attaining and preventing that exploitation, and the simultaneous zeal and ambivalence of the Athenian legal system regarding familial and societal conflict.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.lccPA3612.I8Z5N4en
dc.subject.lcshSpeeches, addresses, etc., Greek.en
dc.titleThe family and gender relations in the speeches of Isaeusen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.type.qualificationlevelMastersen_US
dc.type.qualificationnameMPhil Master of Philosophyen_US
dc.publisher.institutionThe University of St Andrewsen_US


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