When1: -500
Who: Greek patriarchy
What: law
Where: Greece
Detail: Families were patriarchal. Families had separate houses to ensure privacy of family gods, associated with hearth. Ancestor burial places were sacred.
Private property arose. It recorded titles and leases. Sons got equal land shares. Neutral strips separated fields of different families. No alien owned land. There were many slaves.
In marriage, bride wore white, veil, crown, and gown. Groom had to carry his bride over threshold, against her mock resistance. They ate cake after the wedding to show union.
The Greek goddess Themis controlled moral law and harmony. Her daughters were Dike, for divine law and morality, and Eunomia, for law and order.
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