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‘Household’ is a more appropriate rendering of the Greek oikos than ‘family’, since the latter is, for us, synonymous with the restricted group of parents and children. The Greek oikos was something quite different, both in size and in nature. It was a complex entity embracing both people and property, bound together by common ties of kinship, residence and labour. Thus it could embrace also the unrelated persons and the slaves who lived and worked within the same unit.
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‘Household’ is a more appropriate rendering of the Greek oikos than ‘family’, since the latter is, for us, synonymous with the restricted group of parents and children. The Greek oikos was something quite different, both in size and in nature. It was a complex entity embracing both people and property, bound together by common ties of kinship, residence and labour. Thus it could embrace also the unrelated persons and the slaves who lived and worked within the same unit.
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