jueves, 28 de febrero de 2008

How were families organized in ancient greek civilization?

Most Greeks, like most other people throughout history, lived in families with a mother and a father and their children. Usually men got married when they were about twenty-five or thirty years old (as they do today), but women got married much younger, between twelve and sixteen years old. Probably girls from rich families got married younger, and girls from poor families got married a little older, because the girls were so young, they did not have much choice about who they were going to marry. Their fathers, uncles or brothers make the choise for them. Often girls had not even met the man they married before the wedding.

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