caa a22 4500 388081929 CHVBK 20180307125219.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199904 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0017383500026036 doi S0017383500026036 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0017383500026036 Roy J. Polis and Oikos in Classical Athens [Elektronische Daten] [J. Roy] This paper is intended to discuss the household in which Classical Athenians typically lived, and the interest in it shown by the polis. Aristotle saw the household - in his vocabulary the oikos, or sometimes the oikia - as the basic social unit of the polis. He defines the primary relationships within the household as: master and slave, husband and wife, father and child. Clearly for Aristotle the household was paradeigmatically made up of the nuclear family together with whatever slaves the family owned. Modern scholars, while often differing about the roles of the members of the household, have generally accepted that the polis, and in particular Classical Athens, was indeed made up of a number of such households. The slave's role in the household, though important, was obviously different from the roles of the members of the nuclear family, and slaves will be left out of account in this paper. Copyright © The Classical Association 1999 Greece and Rome Cambridge University Press 46/1(1999-04), 1-18 0017-3835 46:1<1 1999 46 GAR https://doi.org/10.1017/S0017383500026036 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0017383500026036 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Roy J. NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Greece and Rome Cambridge University Press 46/1(1999-04), 1-18 0017-3835 46:1<1 1999 46 GAR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge