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GCSE Classics · key term
An Athenian daughter without legitimate brothers who transmitted her father's estate through the family line, rather than inheriting it with the independent control available to a male heir.
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Paper 2
Revise: GreeceAn epikleros, a daughter without legitimate brothers, helped transmit her father's estate to the next male generation. This differed from a Spartan woman's ability to inherit property in her own right.
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