The wife's only legal right was the receipt of a dower in the event of her husband's death. ... Lesbock's analysis of remarriage showed that the majority of women who were wealthy enough to support themselves when widowed would remain unmarried. ...
Analysis Analysis of the play shows many different dimensions of Menander's influence as a playwright, the use of stock characters in New Comedy and how these characters represent the disillusioned spirit and moral ambiguity of the class system as well as some aspects of Greek society. ... He feels like this because of in Ancient Greek times women were treated as second class citizens and "women all took their social and legal status from their husband or their male partner" (University Press Inc). ...
Biblical laws are part of the indigenous legal traditions of the ancient Near East. ... " Through linguistic analysis scholars maintain that the "rib creation" is about 450 years older than the creation in Genesis 1. ... Some interpret Teraphim as house gods and possession of house gods signified legal title to the property. Thus Rachel, believing her father would deny her husband legal share in his estate, took the Teraphim. ...
According to Marital Happiness and Marital Duration and the U-Shaped Curve: Evidence from a Five-Wave Panel Study authors Amato, Johnson and Van Laningham show that "analysis indicates that certain life-course transitions, primarily those involving changes in the number of children at various ages, are associated with changes in marital happiness that the presence of children--regardless of age--is associated negatively with marital happiness ( Amato, Johnson, Van Laningham 2001:1333-4)."" ...
