A Missing Woman: the Hellenistic Leases from Thespiae Revisited

• Main Author: Joshua D. Sosin
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Duke University 2006-01-01
• Series: Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies
• Online Access: http://grbs.library.duke.edu/article/view/2141
• ISSN: 0017-3916; 2159-3159

<!--StartFragment--><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">In the leases, &pi;</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">ὰ&rho;</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> + name in the genitive indicates the original property owner, and in one text &pi;</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">ὰ&rho;</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"> &Mu;&epsilon;&nu;ί&alpha;&sigmaf;, rather than &Pi;&alpha;&rho;&mu;&epsilon;&nu;ί&alpha;&sigmaf;, adds to the number of rich women attested in Hellenistic Boeotia.</span><!--EndFragment-->