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]

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]

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]

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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