An account of the Greek family as a productive and reproductive social unit during the Hellenistic and Classical periods. The evidence for the work has been taken from literary, inscriptional, archeological, anthropological, and art historical evidence. Chapter 1, "Defining the Family," is unique in offering the reader a survey of the categories of family history ... Chapter 3, "Death and the Family," is one of the most valuable in the volume in that it offers the readers a synopsis of the evidence for death and the dead. Especially useful is the inclusion of Clairmont's studies of Attic tombstones together with reports on the archaeological remains of periboloi at Rhamnous ... the material is inherently interesting.