Part of
The Reality of Women in the Universe of the Ancient NovelEdited by María Paz López Martínez, Carlos Sánchez-Moreno Ellart and Ana Belén Zaera García
[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature 40] 2023
► pp. 54–83
The purpose of this work is to make evident how the informations about various aspects of the marriage institution contained in the Greco-Latin novels are not purely fictional data, but approximately respond to historical reality and are reliable enough to be contributed to the task of rebuilding a legal institution such as marriage in the particular eastern historical and geographical context of late Greco-Roman antiquity.