Sarah B Pomeroy

Distinguished Professor of Classics Hunter College Sarah B Pomeroy

Looks at the life of Regilla, her murder, and the arrest, trial, and eventual acquittal of her husband Herodes Atticus for the crime.

A Case of Domestic Violence in Antiquity

The Murder of Regilla

Sarah B. Pomeroy

rah B. Pomeroy

With this volume Sarah Pomeroy provides the first comprehensive study of the Greek family. Knowledge of the family and kin groups is fundamental to understanding the development of the political and legal framework of the polis, a community of oikoi ('families' or 'households') rather than of individual citizens. Pomeroy offers a highly original and authoritative account of the Greek family as a productive and reproductive social unit in Athens and elsewhere during the classical and Hellenistic periods, taking account of a mass of literary, inscriptional, archaeological, anthropological, and art-historical evidence.

Distinguished Professor of Classics Hunter College Sarah B Pomeroy

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