Greek Marriage and Weddings

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.

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

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

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.

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."