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Definitions of phratries in various dictionaries:
noun - people descended from a common ancestor
adj - a tribal unit among primitive peoples [n -TRIES] : PHRATRAL, PHRATRIC
PHRATRIES - In ancient Greece, a phratry (phratria, Greek: (), "brotherhood", "kinfolk", derived from meaning "brother") was a social division of the Greek tri...
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In ancient Greece, a phratry (phratria, Greek: (), "brotherhood", "kinfolk", derived from meaning "brother") was a social division of the Greek tribe (phyle). The nature of these phratries is, in the words of one historian, "the darkest problem among the [Greek] social institutions." Little is known about the role they played in Greek social life, but they existed from the Greek Dark Ages until the 2nd century BC; Homer refers to them several times, in passages that appear to describe the social environment of his times.In Athens, enrollment in a phratry seems to have been the basic requirement for citizenship in the state before the reforms of Cleisthenes in 508 BC. From their peak of prominence in the Dark Ages, when they appear to have been a substantial force in Greek social life, phratries gradually declined in significance throughout the classical period as other groups (such as political parties) gained influence at their cost. * Phratries contained smaller kin groups called gen |