Greek Marriage and Weddings

Greek Eros and Philia Love Magic
The needs of men and women in the arena of love were different and required different types of magic; the men using eros magic, and the women philia or agape magic.

Books Covering Greco-Roman Sexuality and Sex Roles

Review - Kirk Ormand's Exchange and the Maiden
Review of Kirk Ormand's Exchange and the Maiden: Homosocial Marriage in the Tragedies of Sophocles - Deianeira, Antigone, Jocasta, Alcestis, and Tecmessa.

Matrimonium
Article on Matrimonium (marriage) in ancient Greece and Rome, from Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898).

Athenian Wedding Rites
Short section from "A Day in Old Athens," by William Stearns Davis (1910), says the bride married at about the age of 15 and gave away her toys to Artemis before the ceremony.

How to train a wife
From Xenophon, On Household Management [Oeconomicus] 6.17-10. Ischomachus tells Socrates he explained "to his wife that the role assigned to women by society is natural, since it was ordained by the gods, and that it works to the advantage of both sexes."