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The husband of the core nuclear family was generally the oikonomos. [4] [5] The ancient Greek world was a patrilocal society. A married woman would join her husband's oikos. However, the woman would still remain a member of the oikos she grew up in and would return to her original oikos upon the end of a marriage. [4]
The oikos was the basic unit of society in most Greek city-states. For regular Attic usage within the context of families, the oikos referred to a line of descent from father to son from generation to generation. [2] Alternatively, as Aristotle used it in his Politics, the term was sometimes used to refer to everybody living in a given house.
Oeconomicus comes from the Ancient Greek words oikos for home or house and nemein which means management, [1] literally translated to 'household management'. It is one of the earliest works on economics in its original sense of household management, and a significant source for the social and intellectual history of Classical Athens .
The title of this work means "household management" and is derived from the Greek word, οἶκος, oikos, meaning "house/household". The term includes household finance as it is commonly known today and also defines the roles members of the household should have.
Oikeiôsis is rooted in the word oikos (οἶκος). [2] Oikos is the word for household, house, or family, and can be seen in modern English words like economics and ecology (Greek oiko- to Classical Latin oeco- to Medieval Latin eco-).
Nomos, from Ancient Greek: νόμος, romanized: nómos, is the body of law governing human behavior. Nomos or Nomoi may refer to: Nomos (mythology), 'the spirit of law' in Greek mythology; Nomos (sociology), a habit or custom of social and political behavior, originally used by Carl Schmitt; Nomos (music), a genre of Ancient Greek music
The earlier term for the discipline was "political economy", but since the late 19th century, it has commonly been called "economics". [22] The term is ultimately derived from Ancient Greek οἰκονομία (oikonomia) which is a term for the "way (nomos) to run a household (oikos)", or in other words the know-how of an οἰκονομικός (oikonomikos), or "household or homestead manager".
Nomos was an Ancient Greek term that was used for a broad range of societal or socio-political norms or laws in the city-states of that time. [4] This was the basis for the literary claims that Hellenes were different or morally superior to the "warlike" and "bloodthirsty" tribes of the Thracians, who were accused of intemperate drunkenness, immorality and uninhibited sexuality.