To an earlier study1 demonstrating that marriage between first cousins was a frequent occurrence among wealthy Athenian families it is now possible to add evidence to show the importance of remarriage in Athenian society. While there are sixteen certain or probable instances of first cousin marriage projected or performed, 2 one can find more than fifty of remarriage in the orators and other literary sources. 3 Of course, we cannot make any direct comparison between the two sets of data, for in the inheritance cases and other civil suits that provide most of our information the speaker generally has more reason to refer to a half-brother or stepfather than to mention the fact that he or some one else has married a first cousin. 4 Despite this caveat, however, it should be apparent that remarriage was a significant factor in Athenian life. Not only is the total of examples large, we also find an impressive number of clusters. In one case from the Corpus Demos thenicum we learn that among the speaker's ancestors no fewer than five remarried. He says this explicitly of his mother, her father, and her first husband, and of his father's grandfather, 5 and we can infer that his