Research Catalog

Title

Coming of age in ancient Greece : images of childhood from the classical past / Jenifer Neils, John H. Oakley ; with the assistance of Katherine Hart and contributions by Lesley A. Beaumont ... [et al.].

Author

Neils, Jenifer, 1950-

Publication

New Haven : Yale University Press in association with the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, c2003.

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Additional Authors

• Oakley, John Howard, 1949-
• Hart, Katherine
• Beaumont, Lesley A.
• Hood Museum of Art

Description

xvii, 333 p. : ill. (some col.); 32 cm.

Summary

What was childhood like in ancient Greece? What activities and games did Greek children embrace? How were they schooled and what religious and ceremonial rites of passage were key to their development? These fascinating questions and many more are answered in this groundbreaking book. "Coming of Age in Ancient Greece" presents an entirely new perspective by showing that the Greeks were the first culture to represent children and their activities naturalistically in art. Here we learn about depictions of children in myth as well as life, from infancy to adolescence. This beautifully illustrated book features such archaeological artifacts as toys and gaming pieces alongside images of them in use by children on ancient vases, coins, terracotta figurines, bronze and stone sculpture, and marble grave monuments. Essays by eminent scholars present a wide range of topics. -- From publisher's descirption.

Subject

• Art, Greek > Exhibitions
• Children in art > Exhibitions
• Children in art > Exhibitions
• Children > Greece > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs

Note

• Catalog of an exhibition held at Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, Aug. 23-Dec. 14, 2003 and three other locations through Dec. 5, 2004.
• 'Catalogue' : p. [195]-312.
• 'Contributors' : p. 322.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-318) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Childhood in ancient Greece -- Children in Aegean prehistory -- The changing face of childhood -- Fathers and sons, men and boys -- Mothers and daughters -- Children and Greek religion -- Death and the child.

ISBN

• 0300099592 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0300099606 (paper : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2003000028

OCLC

• 51330582
• SCSB-11884211

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library