Index.

Adoption, object of, 35;

out of unfortunate home, 36;

ceremony of, 36-7

Agora, 2, 3

ἀγχιστεία, 32;

its meaning, 55;

its limits, 58-9;

all within it liable for bloodshed, 75 et seq.;

its tribal origin, 143

Ancestor-worship, 10, 140;

in Homer, 5, 7;

in Israel, 8, 9;

in Egypt, 11;

pre-Homeric, 141, note

ἀνεψιός see ἀγχιστεία

βασιλεύς, one of a class, 107, 114;

honoured like a god, 105-6, 122;

owned τέμενος, 102, 106, 122;

influenced the seasons, 105, note;

over-lordship not altogether hereditary, 107;

levied maintenance on their people, 115, 122;

Solomon, 116;

household βασιλεύς 92

Bastard, no place in family, 95-6;

allotment or gift for his maintenance, 95-6

Blood, as basis of family, 13;

of tribe, &c., 4-5, 138;

its purity jealously guarded, 67 et seq.;

acquisition of, 68 et seq.

Blood-fine, not within the tribe or kindred, 42-4, 77;

in Wales, the galanas, 78 et seq.;

paid by whole family, 79 et seq.

Bloodshed, responsibility for, 42;

rested on ἀγχιστεία, 75 et seq.;

within the kindred, 44, 77

Citizenship, admission to, 71, 96;

qualification for, by three descents, 73;

basis of, 138;

confirmed to son of stranger, 71, note

ἔγκτησις, grant of, to new citizen, 97, note; 123, note

ἐπίκληρος, succession found through her, 23;

she must marry next-of-kin, 23-7;

in Gortyn laws, 26;

where more than one, 26;

inherited for her issue, 28;

Ruth as, 31, 34;

had right of maintenance from property, 23-4

Family (see οἶκος), bound to the land, 127 et seq.;

family estate in Santa Maura, 86;

head of family, 91

Funeral, see Sacrifices

Gavelkind, in Kent, 95

Guest, importance at sacrifice, 99-100;

hereditary guestship, 110

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Hearth, 3, 4;

as basis of the family, 13, 17;

in Prytaneum, 4, 15;

initiation of heir to, 89

Heir, duties of, 18-19, 20;

importance of male heir, 21-3, 98 et seq.;

daughter's son, 23-7;

always ranks as son of deceased, 34 et seq., 59 et seq.;

initiated to hearth, 89;

introduced to kindred, 36;

and to the deme, 38-9;

importance of introduction of, 41, 125-8;

co-heir in Wales, 51;

law of succession, 57 et seq.;

disinheritance, 61;

division among heirs, 64 et seq., 101;

Ahab's 'inheritance' of Naboth's vineyard, 114

Hesiod, his κλῆρος, 123;

the needs of a farmer, 109

Hestia, 3, 4, 138;

called “princess,” 13

Inheritance, see κλῆρος, and Heir

Kinship, grades of, 48 et seq.;

in India, 52;

in Wales, 49, 67 et seq.;

the fourth degree, 73, 112;

the seventh, 78 et seq.;

the ninth, 68 et seq.;

wife's relations no kin to husband but are to son, 61, note

Kinsmen, duties of, 18, 42;

next of kin marries “heiress,” 23-7, 35;

his duty to redeem property in Israel, 32, 95;

kinsmen accept heir, 36, 41, 125-7;

sanction disinheritance, 61;

liable for bloodshed, 75 et seq.;

Hesiod's idea of, 123

κλαρῶται, 130

κλῆρος, its form, 85 et seq.;

supported the οἶκος, 88 et seq., 110, 121, 127;

need not be divided, 47, 89, 93, 97;

no joint holding between father and sons, 93;

sold in case of need, 94;

in theory inalienable, 94, 113, 124, 127;

allotted to new citizen, 96;

in Homer, 102;

held by tribesmen, 108;

of Hesiod, 123

κληροῦχοι, 131 et seq.

Land, ownership of, proof of civic rights, 83, 96 (see κλῆρος and τέμενος)

Lar = “lord,” 12;

lares of king, 4

Leases, for ever, 134-6

Levirate, not in Greece, 27;

in India, 29;

in Israel, 30 et seq.

Maintenance of parents (see Parents);

of οἶκος, 110;

the bond of, 110, 139;

of the chief, 114 et seq.; 122;

in Ezekiel, 119;

of children at Sparta, 125;

gift of food to babe, 125;

derived from κλῆρος, 127

Manes, duties to, in India, 19

Marriage, of heiress, 23-6;

of near relations, 29;

of widow (see Levirate)

Octopus, 125 note

οἶκος, part of γένος, 17;

importance of continuity of, 9, 19-20, 30, 35, 111, 128;

the unit of ownership of property, 47, 109;

extent of, 54-6, 88-9;

the householder in India, 99;

supported by its land, 110, 113, 121;

of Bouselos, 55, 62;

power of head of, 91-2

Open field system, in Greece, 85;

in the islands, 87;

in Homer, 88, 104;

its elasticity, 118-9

Parage, in Normandy, an undivided tenure, 50

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Parents, maintenance of, 18, 48;

after death, 19

Phratria, enrols legitimate sons, 36-7;

partly responsible for bloodshed, 76

Primogeniture, not the rule in Greece, 90;

nor in India, 97 et seq.;

eldest son had certain rights or dignity, 90 et seq., 97 et seq.;

called ἠθεῖος, 91, note

Prytaneum, 3, 4, 15, 138

Register, of phratria, 36;

of deme, 38

Ruth, as widow and ἐπίκληρος, 31-4

Sacrifices, object of, 6, 139, note;

to the dead, 8, 9-12;

of funeral cake in India, 51 et seq.;

funeral rites at Athens, 20;

of householder in India, 99;

bond of common religion, 13, 53, 138

Stranger, abhorrence of, 5, 71, 74;

as guest, 99 (see Guest);

admission to tribe, 67 et seq., 96

τέμενος, in Homer, 103, 113;

allotted to princes and gods, 102, 106, 118, 122;

called πατρώιος, 106;

helped to support prince, 118-9

Tonsure, in Greece, 39;

in India, 40

Tribe, its basis one of blood, 4-5, 138;

possible development of, 14-15;

admission to, 68 et seq., 96 (and see Citizenship)

Widow, could not inherit from husband, 27-8;

returned to her kin or guardian, 28;

when allowed to remain, 28, note;

the case of Tamar, 30;

of Ruth, 31 et seq.

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