Over the years he has also published on lyric poetry, Homer and Athenian law.
A number of Athenian laws addressed the pederastic relationship.
Athenian law also required that if the next of kin did not marry the heiress, he had to provide her with a dowry.
The main departure from Athenian law came if there was no direct heir, and the inheritance go to collateral relations.
After it concluded, Athenian law changed the law to allow women to be treated by female physicians in Athens.
By the Athenian law a citizen was not allowed to marry with a foreign woman, nor conversely, under very severe penalties.
Pausanias then launches into a confusing discussion of Athenian law regarding pederasty.
This speech also gives valuable information about Athenian law.
Technically, it was illegal, as the generals were tried and sentenced together, rather than one by one as Athenian law required.
The Athenian law requiring a daughter to die if she does not do her father's will is outdated.