Talk:Epikleros

message: I think this article qualifies for GA, and the only reason I haven't passed it myself is that I'm unfamiliar with the GA process.
There are a couple of issues that I think need to be addressed (none of these prevent the article from passing GA):
*the reference style is a bit weird--either the notes need to have a full citation, with the specific volume of Classical Quarterly et al. the cited article comes from, or a short form of "Lacey, p. 24" w/a full cite in the references section.
** Hey, I'm a medievalist. We are a bit weird ourselves....Ealdgyth - Talk 04:45, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the reply and the copyedit, it's appreciated! Ealdgyth - Talk 04:45, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
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thread_title:  Survey 

message: *Using the figures from this section;
1 in 7 fathers died without biological sons (14% of families?)
1 in 5 families had no sons at all (20%)
Another 1 in 5 families had no sons or daughters (20%)
Therefore;
In 6% of families the father had sons, but they predeceased him.
80% of families had daughters, of which 20% had only daughters.
The chance of a woman being a member of a family requiring epikleros is 1 in 4.
However the chance of any particular woman within one of these families becoming epikleros is probably undeterminable, as it depends on the size of the family and the probabilities of one or more daughters predeceasing the father. Ning-ning (talk) 19:45, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Chances of becoming an epikleros

message: I had a wee question about the Sparta section. Aristotle: was he then referring only to Sparta? Since we might expect him to be talking about Athens, maybe Aristotle records that there were no restrictions on whom an Spartan heiress might marry. But since we've already been told that Spartan women had no restrictions placed on whom they might marry, I was slightly confused by the appearance of this little paragraph.
Under the Gortyn section, we switch back and forth between patroiokos and patroiouchoi (pl.)/patroiouchos (sg.), without explanation of the difference. The plural also seems to be used as if it were singular at a few points.
One other point: anchisteia is introduced (correctly) as a collective/concept (an abstract noun of feminine gender), but later is used as if it were a noun denoting an individual member of the anchisteia, along the lines of "if she married the anchisteia." I don't know whether there's a single word that could replace the cumbersome "a member of the anchisteia," and don't find one immediately in sources, but that needs to be fixed in multiple places. Otherwise, it reads in the same way that "if she married the family" would in English, or more precisely "if she married the kinship group". One spot where this is concentrated is Epikleros#Already married epikleroi.
Was asked to take a look, so that's all to leap out at me on first reading. Cynwolfe (talk) 23:43, 25 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sparta section 

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