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In ancient Greece, a ''genos'' (Greek: γένος, "race, stock, kin",〔(γένος ), Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, ''A Greek-English Lexicon'', on Perseus〕 plural ''genē'' - γένη) was a social group claiming common descent, referred to by a single name (see also Sanskrit "Gana"). Most ''gene'' seem to have been 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 at Athens, where writers from Herodotus to Aristotle dealt with them. 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, but more recent scholarship has reached the conclusion that ''gene'' arose later as certain families staked a claim to noble lineage. In time, some, but not necessarily all, ''gene'' came to be associated with hereditary priestly functions. ==See also== *Gana *Phratry *Phyle 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「genos」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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