Although there was a double standard for sexual conduct and husbands might have additional sexual partners of either gender, Greeks could be legally married to only one spouse at a time. Marriages between close relatives such as first cousins or uncle and niece were common. In a family with no son, or in which a son or sons had died childless (in war, for example), the obligation to perpetuate the oikos fell on the daughter, who was called an epikleros (a term denoting someone “attached to the estate,” sometimes translated as “heiress” for convenience, although she herself could inherit nothing). The epikleros was required to marry the closest of her father’s male relatives who was capable of procreation, usually her uncle or first cousin. If the two were married to other spouses, they had to divorce them. A son born of the union with the epikleros would be considered his grandfather’s heir, and to encourage the production of heirs, the laws of Solon required men who married epikleroi to have sex with them at least three times a month. Men without any children at all would try to adopt a male relative so that their lineage would not die out.
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Inheritance
your point is?
泥潭不是情感垃圾桶