848 say that pais has special reference to the father, teknon to the mother, especially in This distinction must not be pressed : see from Aeschylus alone, e.g., Pers., 177, 189, 197, 211, 227, 233, 352, 473, 476, 529, 609, 847 (Xerxes is Atossa's pats) Sept., 792, 929. Chantraine, Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque, III (Paris, 1974), p.
1 would like to thank my supervisor, Mac Wallace, for his advice on this revised version.ġ LSJ and P. dissertation, Aspects of childhood in Classical Athens, Toronto, 1981. An earlier draft of this article appeared as a chapter of my Ph.
