A medimnos (Greek: μέδιμνος, médimnos, plural μέδιμνοι, médimnoi) was an Ancient Greek unit of volume, which was generally used to measure dry food grain...

women could only enter into a contract worth less than the value of a "medimnos of barley" (a measure of grain), allowing women to engage in petty trading...

with any economic transactions they were involved in worth more than a medimnos of barley. When an Athenian woman married, her husband became her new kyrios...

kammarpsis dry Measure (Attic ἡμιμέδιμνον hemimedimnon, one half of a medimnos) καραβίδες karabides (Attic γρᾶες graes) Μηθυμναῖοι καυαλέον kaualeon Hsch...

day, according to Plutarch, the price of a sheep was one drachma or a medimnos (about 40 kg) of wheat. Thus a mina was worth 100 sheep. The word mina...

hekteus ἑκτεύς 8 choinikes 8.73 L (2.31 US gal; 1.92 imp gal) Roman modius medimnos μέδιμνος 48 choinikes 52.4 L (13.8 US gal; 11.5 imp gal) Except where noted...

taxation purposes only. The standard unit for this assessment was one medimnos (approximately 12 gallons) of cereals and yet the kind of classification...

Athenian women could enter into a contract worth less than the value of a "medimnos of barley" (a measure of grain), allowing women to engage in petty trading...

Athenian women were forbidden from entering a contract worth more than a medimnos of barley, enough to feed an average family for six days. In at least one...

food ration, infantrymen were distributed about two-thirds of an Attic medimnos of grain per month. It is also known from Polybius that if the pay distributed...