HISTORY 36B Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Phratry, Wet Nurse, Aulos
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All born babies under the authority of the father to keep or expose. Too many children could lead to exposure. Boys preferred for earning power, family name, and children to take care of parents in old age. Women"s offspring belonged to their husband"s family. Exposed children either died or collected by slave dealers. Boys inherited membership in father"s phratry and deme. Enrollment in phratry was essential step signaled legitimacy and thus first. Names and life cycle step toward citizenship. Lots of visual depictions of children playing with balls, hoops, tops, dolls. Children played runaway slaves that had to be caught. Children, especially first born, named after paternal grandfatther, second child after maternal grandfather and then more freedom in naming. Women bore an average of 4. 3 children, of whom 2. 7 survived. With the exception of spartan girls and boys, little is know about the life of children. Children of wealthy raised by slave nurses and nannies.
