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Lykurg über Frauen und Ehe in Sparta (72 Aufrufe)
Γραικύλος schrieb am 10.06.2026 um 15:08 Uhr (Zitieren)
Plutarch, Aussprüche von Spartanern (Moralia 227 F – 228 A):
When someone inquired why he [sc. Lykurgos] had made a law that girls should be given in marriage without any dowry, he said, “So that some of them shall not be left unwedded be-cause of lack of means, and some shall not be eagerly sought because of abundant wealth, but that each man, with an eye to the ways of the maid, shall make virtue the basis of his choice [ἕκαστος δὲ εἰς τὸν τρόπον τῆς παιδὸς ἀφορῶν ἀρετῇ τὴν αἵρεσιν ποιῶνται].” For this reason he also banished from the State all artificial enhancement of beauty.

[Plutarch, Moralia III. Ed. by Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge (Mass.)/London 72004, pp. 362-365]

Vgl. Aelian, Varia Historia VI 6:

Is the following again typically Laconian? It was a Spartan law that the man who provided three sons for the state was exempt from garrison duty, and the father of five from all public obligations; he could also marry off his daughters without a dowry.

 
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