num_pages: 344
description: These 20 papers explore ancient notions and experiences of childhood around the Mediterranean, from prehistory to late antiquity. They are grouped into sections on Families; Socialization and Enculturation; Rituals and Life Transitions; Gender and Representation; Burial; Commemoration; and Childhood and the Classical Tradition. The contributors come from a range of different disciplines, including art history, archaeology, classical philology, and physical anthropology.Table of ContentsChildhood between Past and An Introduction (Ada Cohen); The Parental Ethos of the Iliad (Louise Pratt); Children in Classical Attic Votive Reliefs (Carol L. Lawton); The Power of Parenthood in Official Roman Art (Jeannine Diddle Uzzi); Behaving Like a Immature Gestures in Athenian Vase-Painting (Timothy J. McNiven); Paideia's Childhood Education on a Group of Late Antique Mosaics (Constantin A. Marinescu, Sarah E. Cox, and Rudolf Wachter); Educating A Proposed Curriculum for Raising a 4th-Century Christian Infant (Phyllis B. Katz); Children at Votive Terracottas and the Welfare of Infants at Paestum (Rebecca Miller Ammerman); Komos Growing Up among Satyrs and Children (Amy C. Smith); The Awkward Art and Maturation in Early Greece (Susan Langdon); Age and Female Transitions to Adulthood in Late Antiquity (Lisa A. Alberici and Mary Harlow); Children's Girls as Acolytes in Aegean Ritual and Cult (Paul Rehak); Boys Will Be Youth and Gender Identity in the Theran Frescoes (Anne P. Chapin); Gendering the Age Boys, Girls, and Abduction in Ancient Greek Art (Ada Cohen); Childhood among the Mortuary Programs at Tarquinia as Indicators of the Transition to Adult Status (Marshall Joseph Becker); Notions of Childhood in the Classical Evidence from the Bioarchaeological Record (Anna Lagia); Forever An Investigation of the Depictions of Children on Classical Attic Funerary Monuments (Janet Burnett Grossman); Constructing Childhood on Roman Funerary Memorials (Janet Huskinson); Racing with Circus Sarcophagi and the Commemoration of Children in Roman Italy (Eve D'Ambra); Eros and the Children, Animals, and Roman Funerary Sculpture (Jean Sorabella); Children as Poets, Poets as Children? Romantic Constructions of Childhood and Hellenistic Poetry (Annemarie Ambuehl).
language: English
title: Constructions of Childhood in Ancient Greece and Italy
titlecomplete: Constructions of Childhood in Ancient Greece and Italy
ratings_count: 2
publisher: American School of Classical Studies at Athens