A companion to families in the Greek and Roman worlds
By: edited by Beryl Rawson
Series: Blackwell companions to the ancient world
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 643
ISBN-13: 9781405187671
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Houses and households; title: Family and household, ancient history and archaeology : a case-study from Roman Egypt / Lisa Nevett; title: Space and social relationships in the Greek oikos of the classical and Hellenistic periods / Monika Trümper; title: Space and social relations in the Roman west / Jens-Arne Dickmann; title: Household and family in the Roman east and west / Sabine Huebner; title: The royal families of Argead Macedon and the Hellenistic world / Daniel Ogden; title: Monogamy and polygyny / Walter Scheidel; title: The Roman family as productive unit / Richard Saller; title: The families of Roman slaves and freedmen / Henrik Mouritsen; title: Foreign families in Roman Italy / David Noy; title: Soldiers' families in the early Roman empire / Penelope Allison; title: The household as a venue for religious conversion : the case of Christianity / Kate Cooper; title: What we do and don't know about early Christian families / Carolyn Osie; title: Kinship, marriage, parents, and children; title: Consubstantiality, incest and kinship in ancient Greece / Jérôme Wilgaux; title: Marriage in ancient Athens / Cheryl A. Cox; title: From ceremonial to sexualities : a survey of scholarship on Roman marriage / Suzanne Dixon; title: Other people's children / Mark Golden; title: The Roman life course and the family / Tim Parkin; title: Childbirth and infancy in Greek and Roman antiquity / Véronique Dasen; title: Grieving for lost children, Pagan and Christian / Christian Laes; title: The legal side; title: Greek law and the family / Eva Cantarella; title: Adoption and heirship in Greece and Rome / Hugh Lindsay; title: Roman "horror" of intestacy? / Jane Gardner; title: Promoting pietas through Roman law / Judith Evans Grubbs; title: City and country; title: Greek cities and families / Sara Saba; title: A walk with the dead: a funerary cityscape of ancient Rome / Chris Johanson; title: The family and the Roman countryside / Steve Dyson; title: Ritual, commemoration, values; title: Families and religion in classical greece / Janett Morgan; title: Picturing Greek families / Ada Cohen; title: Celebrating the saturnalia : religious ritual and Roman domestic life / Fanny; title: Dolansky; title: Ethos : the socialisation of children in education and beyond / Teresa Morgan; title: Picturing the Roman family / Janet Huskinson.