A Companion to Families in the Greek and Roman Worlds

Rawson, Beryl (Herausgeber)

Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World

1. Auflage Dezember 2010
664 Seiten, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd

ISBN: 978-1-4051-8767-1

John Wiley & Sons

Kurzbeschreibung

Recent decades have witnessed a dramatic surge of interest in the study of families in the ancient Mediterranean world. A Companion to Families in the Greek and Roman Worlds draws from both established and current scholarship to offer a broad and interdisciplinary overview of the field, engage in contemporary debates, and pose stimulating questions about future development in the study of families.
Employing new methodologies and relying on textual and visual evidence from a variety of disciplines, this international team of contributors presents important new insights into life in ancient Greece and Rome and serves to broaden our understanding of the social structures of classical antiquity.

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A Companion to Families in the Greek and Roman Worlds draws from both established and current scholarship to offer a broad overview of the field, engage in contemporary debates, and pose stimulating questions about future development in the study of families.
* Provides up-to-date research on family structure from archaeology, art, social, cultural, and economic history
* Includes contributions from established and rising international scholars
* Features illustrations of families, children, slaves, and ritual life, along with maps and diagrams of sites and dwellings

List of Illustrations

List of Tables

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Families in the Greek and Roman Worlds

Part I: Houses and Households

Part II: Kinship, Marriage, Parents, and Children

Part III: The Legal Side

Part IV: City and Country

Part V: Ritual, Commemoration, Values

Glossary

References

Index

Beryl Rawson is Professor Emerita and Adjunct Professor in Classics at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. She is the author of The Politics of Friendship: Pompey and Cicero (1978) and Children and Childhood in Roman Italy (2003), and the editor of The Family in Ancient Rome: New Perspectives (1986), Marriage, Divorce and Children in Ancient Rome (1991), and The Roman Family in Italy (with Paul Weaver, 1997).

B. Rawson, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia