Stub - 7. Social Division Into Calendrical Tribes and Ranks

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Note the divisions (Benveniste 1973: p. 258: The Athenian constitution divided the phratria (lit. “brotherhood”) into 30 gene (plural of “genos”). Three phratriai constituted a phyle: a “month” of “houses” or families (“house” in the astrological sense as well as that of domicile).

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