- A
medimnos (Gr****: μέδιμνος,
médimnos,
plural μέδιμνοι, médimnoi) was an
Ancient Gr**** unit of volume,
which was
generally used to
measure dry food grain...
- with any
economic transactions they were
involved in
worth more than a
medimnos of barley. When an
Athenian woman married, her
husband became her new kyrios...
-
kammarpsis dry
Measure (Attic ἡμιμέδιμνον hemimedimnon, one half of a
medimnos) καραβίδες
karabides (Attic γρᾶες graes) Μηθυμναῖοι καυαλέον
kaualeon Hsch...
- day,
according to Plutarch, the
price of a
sheep was one
drachma or a
medimnos (about 40 kg) of wheat. Thus a mina was
worth 100 sheep. The word mina...
-
women could only
enter into a
contract worth less than the
value of a "
medimnos of barley" (a
measure of grain),
allowing women to
engage in
petty trading...
- food ration,
infantrymen were
distributed about two-thirds of an
Attic medimnos of
grain per month. It is also
known from
Polybius that if the pay distributed...
-
hekteus ἑκτεύς 8
choinikes 8.73 L (2.31 US gal; 1.92 imp gal)
Roman modius medimnos μέδιμνος 48
choinikes 52.4 L (13.8 US gal; 11.5 imp gal)
Except where noted...
-
Athenian women could enter into a
contract worth less than the
value of a "
medimnos of barley" (a
measure of grain),
allowing women to
engage in
petty trading...
-
taxation purposes only. The
standard unit for this ****essment was one
medimnos (approximately 12 gallons) of
cereals and yet the kind of classification...
- doi:10.2307/284411. JSTOR 284411. The
limit was set at the
value of a
medimnos of barley,
which was not
enough to feed a
family for a w****. Pomeroy, Sarah...
