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Date:
Tue, 25 Jan 1994
From:
David Meadows
Subject: Greek Dowries
Since
we're all in such a bibliohappy mood today, perhaps some kind souls
can help be track down articles, monographs, decent chapters on
Greek dowries (Athenian, Hellenistic, and otherwise). I have a
number of things here (standards like Harrison and Vatin), but they
seem to skirt issues (or should that be peplossing the issues) which
I am interested in, namely, how much control a woman had over her
dowry during marriage (e.g. what if the husband was managing it
badly? Could she take it back? On Crete she seems to have been able
to). Also, what about at the conclusion of marriage? We all know
that it was returned to her father/kyrios, but what if that dowry
contained slaves or other chattels? What if the husband had freed or
sold same? And while we're at it, if anyone can explain the Greek
concept of ownership to me I'd be eternally grateful. Is it just me
or were the Greeks kind of flakey in this regard?
From:
Daniel Curley
Subject:
Re: Greek Dowries
This
isn't going to be much help, since it's off the top of my head:
Sarah Pomeroy wrote an article a few years back about "Public
Charities" for Greek women; among these charities were dowries.
I'll try to track this reference down, unless someone else supplies
it first. See also Pomeroy's _Goddesses..._ book for some general
info.
Date:
Wed, 26 Jan 1994
From:
Tim Parkin
Subject:
Re: Greek Dowries
Some
important discussion on the subject in Mark Golden's *Childhood in
Classical Athens* (Johns Hopkins, 1990), esp. pp.132ff. And of
course there's David Schaps' *Economic Rights of Women in Ancient
Greece* (Edinburgh, 1979), with a detailed chapter on dowry.
Date:
Tue, 25 Jan 1994
From:
"MARILYN SKINNER
Subject:
Re: Greek Dowries
The
Pomeroy article that Dan Curley just mentioned is "Charities
for Greek Women," _Mnemosyne_35 (1982) 115-35. |
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