Title: The Oxford handbook of childhood and education in the classical world /
Authors: Parkin, Tim G.,; Grubbs, Judith Evans; Bell, Roslynne.; Grubbs, Judith Evans.; Parkin, Tim G.; Grubbs, Judith Evans,; Parkin, Tim G.,; Bell, Roslynne,
Year: 2013
Subjects: Children Rome.; Children Greece History; Education, Ancient.; Education, Greek.; Education Rome; Rome Social conditions.; Greece Social conditions
Abstract: "In thirty chapters, The Oxford Handbook of Childhood and Education in the Classical World presents current research in a wide range of topics on ancient childhood, including sub-disciplines of Classics that rarely appear in collections on the family or childhood such as archaeology and ancient medicine. Contributors include some of the foremost experts in the field and younger, up-and-coming scholars. Unlike most edited volumes on childhood or the family in antiquity, this collection also gives attention to the late antique period and whether (or how) conceptions of childhood and the life of children changed with Christianity. The chronological spread runs from archaic Greece to the later Roman Empire (fifth century C.E.). Geographical areas covered include not only classical Greece and Roman Italy, but also the eastern Mediterranean."--
Contents: Part I. Gestation, birth, disease, and death. Becoming Human: from the Embryo to the Newborn Child / Véronique Dasen, Université de Fribourg -- The Demography of Infancy and Early Childhood in the Ancient World / Tim Parkin, University of Manchester -- Babies in the Well: Archaeological Evidence for Newborn Disposal in Hellenistic Greece / Maria A. Liston and Susan I. Rotroff, University of Waterloo/Washington University in St. Louis -- Infant Exposure and Infanticide / Judith Evans Grubbs, Emory University -- The child patient of the Hippocratics: early Pediatrics? / Lesley Dean-Jones, University of Texas at Austin -- Raising a Disabled Child / Christian Laes, University of Antwerp/Free University of Brussels -- Part II. Children and childhood in ancient Greece.- Children in Archaic and Classical Greek art: A Survey / John H.Oakley, College of William and Mary --Children as Learners and Producers in Early Greece / Susan Langdon, University of Missouri at Columbia -- Shifting Gender: Age and Social Status as Modifiers of Childhood Gender in Ancient Athens / Lesley A. Beaumont, University of Sydney -- Children in Athenian Religion / Robert Garland, Colgate University -- Play, Pathos and Precocity: The Three 'P's of Greek Literary Childhood / Louise Pratt, Emory University -- Part III. Children and childhood in ancient Rome-- Children in Latin Epic / Mark Golden, University of Winnipeg -- The Socialization of Roman Children / Janette McWilliam, University of Queensland -- Slave and Lower-class Roman Children / Hanne Sigismund Nielsen, University of Calgary -- Children and Childhood in Roman Commemorative Art / Lena Larsson Lovén, Gøteburg University -- Toys, Dolls and the Material Culture of Childhood / Mary Harlow, University of Birmingham -- Roman Children and the Law / Thomas A.J. McGinn, Vanderbilt University