Proof of Marriage
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- Created on: 04-05-17 13:09
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- Proof of Marriage
- A son is arguing his case on behalf of his mother, stating that she is the legitimate daughter of Ciron.
- The mother married his father and she performed at the Thesmo. They had children and the Phratry, taking an oath that he was introducing children from an Athenian wife.
- No one in the phratry denied them. Therefore she must have been legitimate.
- The mother married his father and she performed at the Thesmo. They had children and the Phratry, taking an oath that he was introducing children from an Athenian wife.
- Theme: Laws and attitudes to inheritance
- Husbands had to take measures to prove legimacy
- For example present their wife and children to the phratry
- Husbands had to take measures to prove legimacy
- Theme: Women's role in ritual
- It was a respectable honour to be asked to take part in the Thesmo
- Authorship: Isaeus was a skilled inheritance speech writer and therefore made concincing arguments
- A son is arguing his case on behalf of his mother, stating that she is the legitimate daughter of Ciron.
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