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Bastards as Athenian Citizens

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Douglas M. Macdowell
Douglas M. Macdowell
Affiliation:
University of Glasgow
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Marriage is a subject of perennial interest, and we should like to be able to assess the exact degree of importance which the Greeks attached to this institution. One of the chief questions is how the formality of marriage, or the lack of it, affected the children of a union; above all, was illegitimate birth a bar to citizenship even in democratic Athens? Unfortunately there is still no general agreement about the answer to this question.

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Research Article
Information
The Classical Quarterly , Volume 26 , Issue 1 , May 1976 , pp. 88 - 91
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1976

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