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S. D. Lambert, The Phratries of Attica (Michigan Monographs in Classical Antiquity). Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993. Pp. xi + 424. ISBN 0-472-10388-1. $69.50.
The nature of the Athenian kinship system has been much debated over the last century. Were phratries subdivisions of the old Attic tribes or were they independent of the tribes? Did each phratry have at its core a genos or were gene subdivisions of the phratry? What was the role of the phratry in the institutional reforms of Cleisthenes? How large was the average phratry in the Classical Age? These are some of the questions that S....