to marry the epikleros went to the eldest one. The property that was inherited could also be in debt, which would not affect the epikleros' status. Although...

heiress of her father because she had no living brothers to inherit (an epikleros), the woman was not required to divorce her current spouse in order to...

Charondas is said to have commanded that if the nearest relative of an epikleros (something close to an heiress) did not wish to marry her, he was required...

respectively married to their kinsmen, the nearest having the first choice (see Epikleros). In fact the heiress, together with her inheritance, belonged to the...

Epangellomenos ("The Man Making Promises") Ephesios ("The Man From Ephesus") Epikleros ("The Heiress") Eunouchos ("The Eunuch") Georgos ("The Farmer") Halieis...

Zelophehad's daughters: Pinchas and Masei Numbers Tanakh Hebrew Bible Epikleros: comparable custom in Ancient Greek society Numbers 26:33 27:3, Joshua...

of Sparta, who married his half-niece Gorgo. A Greek woman who became epikleros, or heiress with no brothers, was obliged to marry her father's nearest...

adultery, her husband was legally required to divorce her. A married epikleros would be divorced so she could marry her nearest relative. Hearing that...

a daughter may become the provisional beret of the property, known as epikleros (roughly translated to an heiress). Later, it was common for most of the...

abuses within the system of inheritance, specifically with relation to the epikleros (i.e. a female who had no brothers to inherit her father's property and...

Ephesia ("The Woman From Ephesus") Epidaurios ("The Man From Epidaurus") Epikleros ("The Heiress") Euploia ("A Pleasant Voyage") Euthydikos Halieuomene ("Woman...

mother of Pericles and Ariphron. W. K. Lacey felt that Agariste was an epikleros, or sole heiress who was required to have children to perpetuate her father's...

des Antiquités grecques et romaines". The most notables are: Eisphora, Epikleros, Eupatrides, Helotae, Phratria, Phylë, Prytaneia, Trapezitai, Gens, Hospitium...

Ekpomatopoios ("The Cup-Maker") Epidaurios ("The Man From Epidaurus") Epikleros ("The Heiress") Epistole ("The Letter") Epitropos ("The Guardian", or...

law that obliges the oldest male relative to marry an orphaned heiress (epikleros). This is devastating news to Chaireas, who is in love with the girl and...

the Dead") Enkalountes ("The Accusers") Epidikazomenos ("The Claimant") Epikleros ("The Heiress") Epitrope, or Epitropeus Hecate ("Hecate") Helenephorountes...

Ambracia Epigram of Amazaspos Epigrams (Homer) Epigrams (Plato) Epihipparch Epikleros Epiktetos Epilaus Epilogism Epimachus of Athens Epimeliad Epimenides Epimetheus...