Status in Classical Athens by Kamen Deborah;

Author:Kamen, Deborah;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2013-02-27T16:00:00+00:00

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1 On the status of nothoi, see, e.g., Harrison 1968, 61–68; Humphreys 1974; MacDowell 1976; Rhodes 1978; C. Patterson 1990. The most thorough treatment of the status of nothoi is Ogden 1996. On nothoi in Greek literature, see Ebbott 2003.

2 On Solon’s bastardy laws, see Ogden 1996, 37–44.

3 C. Patterson 1990, who surveys the history of the word nothos in early Greek literature and law (47–54), concludes that nothos—even in the classical period—refers only to “the paternally recognized offspring of a mismatched or unequal union” (62). Contrast Ogden 1996, 15–17, who argues that at least by the mid-classical period, nothos encompasses all extramarital children. On the significance of the bastard’s relationship to his mother, see Ogden 1995.

4 On Pericles’s law, see C. Patterson 1981. For various interpretations of the purpose of this legislation, see Boegehold 1994; Ogden 1996, 64–69 (with bibliography); and more recently Blok 2009 and Lape 2010, 19–25 (and passim). [Arist.] Ath. Pol. chalks it up to the (large?) number of citizens at this time (26.3).

5 See Ogden 1996, 70–77 on the relaxing of Pericles’s citizenship law during this time; he in fact argues (77) that the law was revoked in 411 BCE, though we have no concrete evidence for this theory.

6 But cf. Walters 1983, 322, who argues that these are two completely separate decrees, one dealing with citizenship, the other with legitimacy.

7 As Todd 1995, 178 points out, “there is very little evidence formally to resolve this question, and most of it is capable of varying interpretations.”

8 For bibliography on these two camps, see Ogden 1996, 151n1; Ogden himself (1996, 151–74) argues against their citizen status.

9 Harrison 1968, 64 with n1.

10 For both of these points, see MacDowell 1976, 89 and 1978, 68.

11 Sealey 1984, 113–14.

12 Harrison 1968, 66; MacDowell 1976, 89–90 and 1978, 68.

13 Ogden 1996, ch. 2. On citizenship and phratry membership, see Lambert 1993, 31–43.

14 Rhodes 1978, 89; Todd 1995, 178.

15 Ogden 1996, 41.

16 Rhodes 1978, 90; see also C. Patterson 1990, 46n25; Todd 1995, 178; Ogden 1996, 156.

17 See C. Patterson 1990, 54; Ogden 1996, 33–34.

18 For the problems involved in using this speech to determine the citizen status of nothoi, see C. Patterson 1990, 70–73; Ogden 1996, 163–65.

19 See, e.g., Lape 2010, ch. 2.

20 Perhaps Phile was too young when Pyrrhos died to gain possession of the estate, and so was passed over in favor of Endios, and later, since Endios did not marry (and had no children to whom the estate would be passed down), she and Xenokles might not have objected to waiting to make their claim (Wyse 1904, 276; C. Patterson 1990, 72–73). Moreover, if they had reported Phile as an heiress, Xenokles would have had to abandon her to her next-of-kin, which was standard practice for epiklēroi (heiresses). Alternatively, perhaps the citizen status of her maternal family was in dispute, and she was waiting until the issue was settled before attempting to make a claim (C. Patterson 1990, 73).

21 Wyse 1904, 279; Rhodes 1978, 91; C.

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