Английская Википедия:Genos
Шаблон:Italic title Шаблон:See also In ancient Greece, a genos (Greek: γένος, "race, stock, kin",[1] plural γένη genē) was a social group claiming common descent, referred to by a single name (see also Sanskrit "Gana"). Most gene were composed of noble families—Herodotus uses the term to denote noble families—and much of early Greek politics seems to have involved struggles between gene. Gene are best attested in Athens, where writers from Herodotus to Aristotle dealt with them.Шаблон:Citation needed
Early modern historians postulated that gene had been the basic organizational group of the Dorian and Ionian tribes that settled Greece during the Greek Dark Ages,Шаблон:Citation needed but more recent scholarship has reached the conclusion that gene arose later as certain families staked a claim to noble lineage.Шаблон:Citation needed In time, some, but not necessarily all, gene came to be associated with hereditary priestly functions.[2]
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- Fine, John V.A. The Ancient Greeks: A Critical History. Harvard University Press, 1983. Шаблон:ISBN
- Hornblower, Simon, and Anthony Spawforth ed. The Oxford Classical Dictionary. Oxford University Press, 2003. Шаблон:ISBN