Talk:Oikos

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1 Xenophon's Oeconomicus
2 Disambiguate?
3 Oikos as Hellenistic technical term
4 Oikos

[edit] Xenophon's Oeconomicus

Just a note to include this work in this article... Pjmc 12:58, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Disambiguate?

Would a disambiguation of the ancient Greek social concept and the modern social concept better server both? PoptartKing 20:18, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Oikos as Hellenistic technical term

I'm not sure where you plan to go with expanding this article, but the word oikos was a technical astrological term (beginning circa 2nd century BCE). An 'oikos' was the sign of the zodiac in which a planet was in its own home (e.g., Venus in Taurus). This placement gave the planet some sort of prominence in the chart, and it was used in a variety of astrological techniques. In Mithraism the oikos or hupsoma of a planet may have been used in symbolism borrowing from the popular astrological doctrine.

Should I add this information or is it far afield?

There is also the popular Stoic philosophy term 'oikeosis', but I suppose this as well as the patristic 'oikonomia' belong in separate articles.

Zeusnoos 17:23, 9 August 2006 (UTC)