The moral of Molliston Madison Clark Book

This seemed like it would be very interesting when I started, and while it was easily readable, in the end I'm wondering how much of this is the true customs of ancient Greece, and how much is this author's own interpretation and conjecture, based on scant sources. The author seemed to inject a lot of his own opinion into the book.

Chapters include "The Family" with the low regard of Athenian women stressed; "Problems of Non-Citizen Women" where we are told of the legal troubles faced by slaves and whores; "Preserving the Oikos" with legal cases involving inheritance; "Friendship and Enmity" with more legal discussion; "The Etiquette of Homosexual Relationships" mainly dealing with pederasty; "Slaves and Slave Masters" telling how slaves should not come from the same country or speak the same language so they can't band together against the owner; "Dealing with the Gods",a chapter that was full of contradictory conclusions on the author; and "Anecdotes" which was an entire chapter devoted to things which 'might' have been said.

In the end, it seems that the Ancient Greeks were not all that different from many people alive today. The more times change, the more things stay the same.