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Age of Marriage in Greece


In the Ancient Greek civilization, the time to marry was at the onset of puberty:
Flacelière (59) also mentioned that girls could marry as soon as puberty hit.


(Daily Life in Greece at the Time of Pericles, http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0075-
4269(1966)86%3C250%3ADLIGAT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-W ,
http://www.richeast.org/htwm/Greeks/.../marriage.html )


WomenInTheAncientWorld.com says:
Athenian men married out of a sense of civic duty and put off the fateful day until
the age of 30 or more, at which time they married girls of half their age whose
youth made them more easily controlled.
(WomanInTheAncientWorld.com,


http://www.womenintheancientworld.co...ent%20egypt.ht
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Age of Marriage in Christian Europe



In an article about Medieval times, Molloy College’s website says:
Women were marriageable right after puberty, marriage arrangements were made
while they were in infancy; they were wed at the age of twelve or fourteen to men
in their twenties or thirties.


(Molloy College, http://www.molloy.edu/sophia/med_ren/med_text.htm)
Puberty was linked to virginity, a highly sought after quality. We read in Judith M.
Bennet’s book Singlewomen in the European Past:


As Anthony Molho persuasively illustrates, the cultural imperative to marry
young women soon after they reached sexual maturity even prompted many
Florentine fathers to falsify their daughters' ages to give them more time to
negotiate a favorable marriage.


(Singlewomen in the European Past, p.44,


http://books.google.com/books?id=l6Y...4&lpg=PA44&dq=
nobility+married+early&source=web&ots=K6CD_RPNNC&s ig=rug6ZIF REdsm
FAKkjPIboKsd2KI)


The History at Minnesota website indicates that the average age of marriage just 500
years ago was only 12.7 (http://www.hist.umn.edu/~rmccaa/NAHUAEN3/outline.htm)
This is an average, meaning that many girls were getting married much younger than that.
Why then are the Christians up in arms about Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him)
who married Aisha (peace be upon her) more than 1,400 years ago?

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