Household Interests: Property, Marriage Strategies, and Family Dynamics in Ancient AthensHousehold Interests is one of the first books to explore in depth the nature of the Greek household (oikos) in classical Athens. Whereas the oikos traditionally has been defined as the household of the nuclear family in Greece, Cheryl Anne Cox reveals it as a much more fluid structure, taking care to distinguish between the concepts of household and family. The legal basis of the typical elite household emerges as Cox describes marriage patterns or