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Adultery in Classical Athens
In Classical Athens, there was no exact equivalent of the English term "adultery", but there was a similar offence, ''moicheia'', which is often translated as adultery by scholars. Athenian ''moicheia'' was restricted to illicit sex with free women, and so men could legally have extra-marital sex with slaves and prostitutes. Famously, Athenian adultery laws considered seduction of a citizen woman a worse crime than rape.
==Definition==
The act which is usually rendered in English as "adultery" was called ''moicheia'' (μοικεια) in Greek. ''Moicheia'' was defined more broadly than the English "adultery", however, referring to any "seduction of a free woman under the protection of a ''kyrios''". Thus, sex with the wife, daughter, or sister of a free man were all considered to be instances of ''moicheia''. In at least one case, detailed in the speech Against Neaera, we know that an alleged ''moichos'' was imprisoned based on a father's right to punish ''moicheia'' committed against his daughter. In Athenian law, ''moicheia'' was always committed by men upon women.〔
Against this view of ''moicheia'', David Cohen has argued that it was limited to sex with citizens' wives, and that the word ''moichos'' was synonymous with the modern English "adulterer", but this view has been largely rejected by other scholars.
Married men were not considered to have committed adultery if they were to have sexual relationships with slaves or prostitutes.
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