Proof Of Marriage/ Ciron (ATHENS)

SUMMARY    

• Son of Ciron's daughter is acting as her defendant and providing evidence so she can inherit/ make a claim to her fathers estate.
• Her husband is dead or divorced, we know this because her closest male relative/her guardian is her son.
• She's respectable so she is not present and her name isn't mentioned in trial.
• This case illustrates that women had no legal voice and very little financial status.

WHAT IT TELLS US ABOUT THIS SOCIETY

MARRIAGE

illigitimate women would not have been afforded a a wedding feast or marriage-banquet to phratry, implies that…