Research Catalog

Title

A companion to families in the Greek and Roman worlds / edited by Beryl Rawson.

Publication

Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.

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• Contributor biographical information
• Publisher description

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Additional Authors

Rawson, Beryl.

Description

xviii, 643 pages : illustrations, maps, plans; 26 cm.

Summary

• 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 the great diversity of family forms in classical antiquity. 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, such as archeology, art, law, and early Christianity, 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. --Book Jacket.

Series Statement

Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Literature and culture

Uniform Title

Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Literature and culture.

Alternative Title

Families in the Greek and Roman worlds

Subject

• To 1500
• Families > Rome
• Families > Greece > History > To 1500
• Dwellings > Rome
• Dwellings > Greece > History > To 1500
• Familjer > historia > antiken
• Dwellings
• Families
• Manners and customs
• Social history
• Rome > Social life and customs
• Greece > Social life and customs
• Rome > Social conditions
• Greece > Social conditions > To 146 B.C
• Romerska riket > vardagsliv och traditioner
• Grekland > vardagsliv och traditioner > historia > antiken
• Greece
• Rome (Empire)

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [567]-623) and index.

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.

Call Number

HQ511

ISBN

• 9781405187671
• 1405187670

LCCN

2010025065

OCLC

643569375

Title

A companion to families in the Greek and Roman worlds / edited by Beryl Rawson.

Imprint

Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Literature and culture

Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Literature and culture.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [567]-623) and index.

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Contributor biographical information

Publisher description

Chronological Term

To 1500

Added Author

Rawson, Beryl.

Research Call Number

*R-RMRR HQ511 .C66 2011