A companion to families in the Greek and Roman worlds /
Recent decades have witnessed a dramatic surge of interest in the study of families in the ancient Mediterranean world. Social history has only recently extended its scope to include women, children, slaves, and foreigners, giving birth to a new definition of "the family" that recognizes t...
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Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Malden, MA :
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| ISBN: | 9781405187671 1405187670 |
Table of Contents:
- Houses and households: Family and household, ancient history and archaeology : a case-study from Roman Egypt / Lisa Nevett. Space and social relationships in the Greek oikos of the classical and Hellenistic periods / Monika Trümper. Space and social relations in the Roman west / Jens-Arne Dickmann. Household composition in the ancient Mediterranean : what do we really know? / Sabine R. Huebner. The royal families of Argead Macedon and the Hellenistic world / Daniel Ogden. Monogamy and polygyny / Walter Scheidel. The Roman family as productive unit / Richard Saller. The families of Roman slaves and freedmen / Henrik Mouritsen. Foreign families in Roman Italy / David Noy. Soldiers' families in the early Roman Empire / Penelope Allison. The household as a venue for religious conversion : the case of Christianity / Kate Cooper. What we do and don't know about early Christian families / Carolyn Osiek
- Kinship, marriage, parents, and children: Consubstantiality, incest, and kinship in ancient Greece / Jérôme Wilgaux. Marriage in ancient Athens / Cheryl A. Cox. From ceremonial to sexualities : a survey of scholarship on Roman marriage / Suzanne Dixon. Other people's children / Mark Golden. The Roman life course and the family / Tim Parkin. Childbirth and infancy in Greek and Roman antiquity / Véronique Dasen. Grieving for lost children, pagan and Christian / Christian Laes
- The legal side: Greek law and the family / Eva Cantarella. Adoption and heirship in Greece and Rome / Hugh Lindsay. Roman "horror" of intestacy? / Jane F. Gardner. Promoting pietas through Roman law / Judith Evans Grubbs
- City and country: Greek cities and families / Sara Saba. A walk with the dead : a funerary cityscape of ancient Rome / Christopher Johanson. The family and the Roman countryside / Stephen L. Dyson
- Ritual, commemoration, values: Families and religion in classical Greece / Janett E. Morgan. Picturing Greek families / Ada Cohen. Celebrating the Saturnalia : religious ritual and Roman domestic life / Fanny Dolansky. Ethos : the socialization of children in education and beyond / Teresa Morgan. Picturing the Roman family / Janet Huskinson. Devotional visuality in family funerary monuments in the Roman world / Janet H. Tulloch.