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As widows, their male families would have wished to give them in marriage again but there were no men for them. Thus a great social consequence of the Athenian casualties in the campaigns of the fifth and fourth centuries is that the wars affected the Athenian population as a whole, and left a considerable number of widows and orphans in many families. The age at first marriage of both sexes is also noteworthy. One of the primary factors determining the development cycle of the family is the age at first marriage of men and women.

Even so, it does not necessarily imply that all the widows who were still capable of bearing children got men to remarry them. Thus there would still be a significant number of widows in the Athenian population without men to remarry them. 16-17; for surely these cannot be significant demographically. It is, however, to be noted that another cause of death might be legal expulsion. 41. , disburdenment. This was a liberation of the land and the people. Our primary literary evidence on this important episode in Athenian history is Solon's own testimony as contained in his fragmentary poems handed down to us by the author of the Athenaion Politeia and Plutarch.

Iii) "Let the archon take charge of orphans and of heiresses and of families that are becoming extinct, and of all women who remain in the houses of their deceased husbands, declaring that they are pregnant. Let him take charge of these, and not suffer anyone to do any outrage to them. And if anyone shall commit any outrage or any lawless act against them, he shall have power to impose a fine upon such person up to the limit fixed by law. And if the offender shall seem to him to be deserving of a more severe punishment, let him summon such a person, giving him five days' notice, and bring him before the court of Heliaea, writing upon the indictment the penalty which he thinks is deserved.

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