Greco-Roman Household Codes

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2500 BCE

1000+ CE

Classical

Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics 8:30 Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics 8:31 Philo The Special Laws Philo The Decalogue 1:165 Hierocles On Household Management

New Testament

Colossians 3:18 Colossians 3:22 Ephesians 5:22 Ephesians 5:23 1 Peter 3:1

Early Christian

Didache 4:11 Barnabas 19:7 1 Clement 21:6 Polycarp Epistle to the Philippians 4:2

Rabbinic

Mishnah Ketubot 5:5

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In Greek and Roman moral writing, the well-ordered household was a recurring topic, treated as the foundation of a well-ordered city. Aristotle's Politics frames it through three reciprocal pairs, husband and wife, parent and child, master and slave, with one party in each understood to rule. Later writers added household finances, sibling relations, civic duties, and Stoic circles of duty running outward from the self to kin and humanity.

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