Un'attestazione dell'epiclerato attico nelle Supplici di Eschilo

[Machine translation] The passage in Aeschylus's Supplications in which King Pelasgus accepts the Danaides' request for help, while recognizing the legal basis of their cousins' claim to marry them because they are their close relatives, reveals a chronologically very high testimony of the Athenian epiclerate. The examination of the passage, very critical of the institution of the Epiclerate for the compulsion it placed on the Epikleros woman, shows that this institution was not at all well accepted in the 5th century, as sometimes claimed, and that its social criticism began long before the fourth century.