Format:
XVIII, 643 S.
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Ill., Kt.
Edition:
1. publ.
ISBN:
9781405187671
Series Statement:
Blackwell companions to the ancient world
Content:
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. --
Content:
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
Content:
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. --
Note:
Houses and households ; Family and household, ancient history and archaeology : a case-study from Roman Egypt
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Space and social relationships in the Greek oikos of the classical and Hellenistic periods
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Space and social relations in the Roman west
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Household and family in the Roman east and west
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The royal families of Argead Macedon and the Hellenistic world
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Monogamy and polygyny
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The Roman family as productive unit
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The families of Roman slaves and freedmen
,
Foreign families in Roman Italy
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Soldiers' families in the early Roman empire
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The household as a venue for religious conversion : the case of Christianity
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What we do and don't know about early Christian families
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Kinship, marriage, parents, and children ; Consubstantiality, incest and kinship in ancient Greece
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Marriage in ancient Athens
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From ceremonial to sexualities : a survey of scholarship on Roman marriage
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Other people's children
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The Roman life course and the family
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Childbirth and infancy in Greek and Roman antiquity
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Grieving for lost children, Pagan and Christian
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The legal side ; Greek law and the family
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Adoption and heirship in Greece and Rome
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Roman "horror" of intestacy?
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Promoting pietas through Roman law
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City and country ; Greek cities and families
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A walk with the dead: a funerary cityscape of ancient Rome
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The family and the Roman countryside
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Ritual, commemoration, values ; Families and religion in classical greece
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Picturing Greek families
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Celebrating the saturnalia : religious ritual and Roman domestic life
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Dolansky ; Ethos : the socialisation of children in education and beyond
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Picturing the Roman family
Additional Edition:
Online-Ausg. A companion to families in the Greek and Roman worlds Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell Pub, 2011 ISBN 9781444390766
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781444390742
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1444390740
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781444350678
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1444350676
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
Keywords:
Griechenland
;
Familie
;
Geschichte
;
Römisches Reich
;
Geschichte
;
Aufsatzsammlung
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