- Kind of writing
- Philosophic Dialogue
- Dialect
- Attic
- Written
- 5th–4th c. BC
- Length
- 20,938 words analysed
- Vocabulary
- 79% common words
- In the library
- 1 Greek text, 1 English translation
The texts
Each is the collection's own file, read unchanged from the Perseus Digital Library or Open Greek and Latin. The description is theirs too.
In The Painted Stoa
Entries that quote or point to this work's Greek.
Wedding torches, a poet's fever, lovers' customs and the law on adulteryLove, sex and marriageA Greek marriage was a deal between two households, made so that a man would have legitimate children to inherit his house.House, family, slaves and storerooms: the oikos, and the town where it survivesThe householdA Greek oikos was more than a house.