Ἐπίκληρος
epikleros, heiress
Translated by David Whitehead5 Nov 2007Vetting: high7 revisions
Translation
The Athenians had a law [or: custom] that when there was a legitimate daughter and a nothos son,1 the nothos did not inherit the family property. Alternatively [the term epikleros means] she who has no other siblings as fellow kleros-inheritors, but is the sole kleros-inheritor. Since it was not possible for nothoi to inherit the kleros, they gave [her] control of the money. It was Attic law [or: custom] to bequeath [money] to nothoi up to the sum of 5 minas.
Agathias [writes]: "women were walking up and down the battlements: some of them mothers of the dead, some heiresses, some with a connection of another kind".2
Agathias [writes]: "women were walking up and down the battlements: some of them mothers of the dead, some heiresses, some with a connection of another kind".2