The Roman family in the empire
Subtitle: Rome, Italy, and beyond
By: edited by Michele George.
Contributors: George, Michele.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
Subjects: Family -- Rome -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.
Description: This title on Roman family life includes studies of the families in Roman provinces. Subjects treated include family values, the relationship between parents and children, family tensions, marriage patterns, and family commemorations on tombstones.
Notes: "Most papers in this volume were given at the Fourth E.T. Salmon Conference in Roman Studies held at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada, in September 2001"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-353) and index.
Table of contents: title: Putting the family across : Cicero on natural affection / Susan Treggiari; title: Family imagery and family values in Roman Italy / Michele George; title: The Roman child in sickness and in health / Keith Bradley; title: Parent-child conflict in the Roman family : the evidence of the Code of Justinian / Judith Evans Grubbs; title: Searching for the Romano-Egyptian family / Richard Alston; title: The Jewish family in Judaea from Pompey to Hadrian; title: the limits of romanization / Margaret Williams; title: Family relations in Roman Lusitania : social change in a Roman province? / Jonathan Edmondson; title: Family history in the Roman north-west / Greg Woolf; title: Family and kinship in Roman Africa / Mireille Corbier; title: Children and parents on the tombstones of Pannonia / Mary T. Boatwright.