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- An epikleros (ἐπίκληρος; pl.: epikleroi) was an heiress in ancient Athens and other ancient Gr**** city states, specifically a daughter of a man who had...
- judicial functions had been restricted to cases dealing with heiresses (epikleroi), adoptions and the public roads (the meaning of the last term is unclear...
- married relatives. This was especially the case of women with no brothers (epikleroi), whose nearest male relative was given the first option of marrying her...
- procedure for ostracism after 487 BC. An archon's court was in charge of the epikleroi. Other duties of the archons included supervising the Panathenaea and...
- absence of sons did not inherit at all, but came along with the estate as epikleroi. Instead of automatic inheritance rights, daughters were given dowries...
- of the greedy Smikrines. The Solonic law regarding orphaned heiresses (epikleroi) was a po****r topic in Gr**** and Roman New Comedy. Apart from Menander's...