Regarding their different philosophical beliefs, philosophers Plato and Aristotle would ultimately argue about women and their place in society, the home and their relationship with politics. Although Augustine was not a philosopher, he often referred to women. Most often, Augustine respected the teachings of his religion by explaining to women and their place not only the limits of a marriage, but also in relation to God. The importance of their views regarding women, politics, and religion has arguably shaped the ideals and social morals of current Western thought and ideologies. Women in Society and the Home Regarding women and their place in Greek society, they were primarily based on the family unit. Initially, the household and/or Oikos were composed of both free individuals and slaves. Basically, the Oikos were under the domination of the head of the family and were linked by a complex set of family relationships. “The household included not only members of the nuclear family, but the entire physical and economic unit, including property and land, and there was a strict limitation on succession by inheritance. »1 It is interesting to note that with regard to inheritance, marriage and property, the primary concern was the preservation of the family, its survival and that of the Oikos. “Typically a man married when property was divided upon death…and eventually established his own Oikos…thirty or thirty-five seems to have been the normal age for a man to marry. »2 It was stipulated in Athenian law that sons succeed their fathers and all sons had to share the inheritance. However, in a family without sons, the inheritance would most often be left to the daughter...... middle of paper ......s, 2008), 1231 Blundell, Women in Classical Athens, 12-3.32 Fred Meunier. 2009. Aristotle's political theory. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-politics/ (Accessed July 6)33 Stark, Feminist Interpretations of Augustine, 57.34 Stark, Feminist Interpretations of Augustine, 56-7.35 Bella Vivante, Daughters of Gaia: Women in the Ancient Mediterranean World (Greenwood Publishing Group Inc. 2007) 116.36 Vivante, Daughters of Gaia, 116-11737 Chan, Political Philosophy, The Republic Book V38 Chan, Political Philosophy, The Republic Book V39 Brown, Plato's Ethics in the Republic40 Pomeroy, Spartan Women, 61-3.41 Pomeroy, Spartan Women, 54-5.42 Pomeroy, Spartan Women, 63.43 Pomeroy, Spartan Women, 59.44 Cahn, Political Philosophy, 225.45 Stark, Feminist Interpretations of Augustine, 57.