La città e gli orfani

Abstract

Tra marginalità e integrazione. Aspetti dell'assistenza sociale nel mondo greco e romano-A cura di U. Roberto e P.

Sparta: History, State and Society

“…3.3.8), but more authority on this must be accorded to Aristotle, who reports that there were many heiresses (epikleroi) and large dowries were not an exception. Regardless of the criticism of Aristotle's formulations and the sense of his statement as presented by Cartledge (1981,(97)(98), it is a fact that a Spartan daughter (patrouchos, Hdt. 6.57.4) did inherit the family's wealth (Hodkinson 2000) and that this was what guided many men -like that contender (or contenders) for the hand of Lysander's daughter (or daughters) -in their choice of a wife (see below, Chapter 3,p.…”

“…Another possibility that cannot be ruled out is that a dowry was usual in the case of marriages arranged with the bride's father and perhaps not in the case of other marriages. Cartledge (1981,(97)(98), however, maintains that Aristotle was wrong in saying that there had been many epikleroi in Sparta and brides received large dowries -not only because he used the Athenian term epikleros but above all because the Spartan heiresses (patrouchos), in contrast to the Athenian ones, truly inherited wealth from their fathers (Hdt. 6.57.4).…”

La tutela degli orfani nelle Leggi di Platone: una risposta alle aporie della prassi ateniese

“…Come interpretare allora l'attribuzione di questa norma a Epitadeo? L'aneddoto riferito da Plutarco sembra contenere un nucleo di verità e induce ad ammettere l'esistenza a Sparta di norme in materia testamentaria (Avramović 2005, 176 e n. 7 per la bibliografia precedente), che consentivano di disporre discrezionalmente delle proprie sostanze e, in alcuni casi, di alienare l'ἀρχαία μοίρα, inalienabile però tramite compravendita (cf. Lupi 2003, 169-170).…”