 | Charles Daniel Dance - Belize - 1881 - 378 pages
...ceremonious liturgy, and carried out in practice the doctrine * Ask a Lycian who he is, and he anwers by giving his own name, that of his mother, and so on in the female line. — Herodotus, Rawlinson. t It would seem that the Arians, when they came in contact with the Scyths... | |
 | William Cleaver Wilkinson - Greek literature - 1884 - 350 pages
...Herodotus says : They have one singular custom in which they differ from every other nation in the world. They take the mother's and not the father's name....that of his mother, and so on in the female line. Readers of Tennyson will remember an allusion in The Princess which the foregoing passage explains... | |
 | Robert Brown - 1902 - 324 pages
...says : — ' They have one singular custom in which they differ from every other nation in the world. They take the mother's and not the father's name....that of his mother, and so on in the female line.' l But this quotation, so far as it goes, puts an end to any idea of Boiotian female kinship, in which... | |
 | William Isaac Thomas - Electronic books - 1907 - 346 pages
...under the laws of Solon.7 Herodotus says of the Lycians: Ask a Lycian who he is, and he will answer by giving his own name, that of his mother, and so...line. Moreover, if a free woman marry a man who is a ' Gen. 24:5, 53. 4Judg. 15. 2 Gen. 31:43. s Cf. Smith, loc. cit., 176. 3 Judg. 8: 19. 6 2 Sam. 13:... | |
 | Jane Johnstone Christie - Women - 1912 - 348 pages
...the children take the mother's name and not the father's. Ask a Lycian who he is, and he will answer by giving his own name, that of his mother, and so...woman marry a man who is a slave, their children are free citizens, but if a man marry a foreign woman, or live with a concubine, even though he be the... | |
 | Catherine Gasquoine Hartley - Marriage - 1913 - 432 pages
...thenceus, XIII. 2). Herodotus reports that mother-descent was practised by the Lycians, and states that " if a free woman marry a man who is a slave their children are free citizens ; but if a free man marry a foreign woman or cohabit with a concubine, even though he... | |
 | Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - Asia - 1879 - 548 pages
...They have, however, one singular custom in which they differ from every other nation in the world. They take the mother's and not the father's name....man who is a slave, their children are full citizens ; hut if a free man marry a foreign woman, or live with a concubine, even though he be the first person... | |
 | Merlin Stone - Religion - 1978 - 324 pages
...among the Lycians, where they appear to have lingered the longest or were most noted. Herodotus wrote, "Ask a Lycian who he is and he answers by giving his...that of his mother and so on in the female line." Nicholas of Damascus reported, "They name themselves after their mothers and their possessions pass... | |
 | Gregory Nagy - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 428 pages
...in mind. For instance the famous passage which plays a great part in any discussion on matriarchy: "Ask a Lycian who he is, and he answers by giving...so on in the female line. Moreover if a free woman marries a man who is a slave, their children are full citizens, but if a free man marries a foreign... | |
 | William Ridgeway - 1931 - 788 pages
...Carian. They have however one singular custom, in which they differ from every other nation in the world. They take the mother's and not the father's name....his own name, that of his mother, and so on in the 1 vi. 37. Some have attempted to explain o/io-ydXaio-es us ' those who offer the same milk,' from a... | |
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They have, however, one singular custom in which they differ from every other nation in the world. They take the mother's and not the father's name. Ask a Lycian who he is, and he answers by giving his own name, that of his mother, and so on in the female... 
