The Phratries

Superficially, the phratries resembled the internally organized segments of the public organization in that they were open only to citizens and in that all citizens seem to have been eligible for admission. As, too, with the demes and (as an automatic consequence) the larger groups of which the demes were components, the phylai, membership in this or that phratry was determined exclusively on the basis of de scent, with the father obligated to demonstrate his son’ s legitimate birth to the satisfaction of his fellow phrateres.

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