Greco-Roman Household Codes

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2500 BCE

1000+ CE

Hebrew Bible

Deuteronomy 10:17 Deuteronomy 10:20 Proverbs 24:21 Proverbs 31:22

Deuterocanon

Tobit 4:3 Sirach 2:8 Sirach 3:2 Sirach 19:15 Sirach 25:24 Sirach 33:31

Pseudepigrapha

4 Maccabees 14:6 4 Maccabees 15:4

Classical

Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 8:30 Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 8:31 Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 8:32 Philo, The Special Laws Philo, The Special Laws 2:226 Philo, The Decalogue 1:165 Pseudo Philo, Biblical Antiquities 13:8 Seneca, On Providence 2:5 Plutarch, Moralia 479 Plutarch, Moralia 483 Hierocles, On Household Management Hierocles, On Marriage Hierocles, On Parents

New Testament

Colossians 3:18 Colossians 3:22 Colossians 3:24 Colossians 3:25 Romans 13:1 Ephesians 5:22 Ephesians 5:23 Ephesians 6:9 1 Peter 2:13 1 Peter 2:17 1 Peter 3:1 1 Peter 3:3 1 Timothy 2:9 1 Timothy 2:14

Targum

Jonathan Isaiah 3:16

Early Christian

Didache 4:9 Didache 4:11 Barnabas 19:5 Barnabas 19:7 Clement of Rome, 1 Clement 21:6 Polycarp, Epistle to the Philippians 4:2

Rabbinic

Mishnah Ketubot 5:5 Ketubot 59b Ketubot 61a Kiddushin 29a

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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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