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1 Online-Ressource (371 p)
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9781119143697
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This comprehensive study of families in the Mediterranean world spans the Bronze Age through Late Antiquity, and looks at families and households in various ancient societies inhabiting the regions around the Mediterranean Sea in an attempt to break down artificial boundaries between academic disciplines.
Content:
Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Foreword and Acknowledgments -- Part I Introduction -- Chapter 1 A Mediterranean Family? A Comparative Approach to the Ancient World -- The Family in the Mediterranean in Modern Times -- The Family in the Mediterranean in Antiquity -- Conclusions -- References -- Part II The Greek and Hellenistic World -- Chapter 2 Identifying Family Structures in Early Iron Age Crete -- Introduction -- The Evidence from Vronda, Kavousi -- Kinship Structures in Bronze and Early Iron Age Crete -- Conclusions -- References
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Chapter 3 The Idea of Descent in Early Greek Kinship -- Evidence for Early Iron Age Kinship -- Descent in Early Greek Thinking -- Descent and Kinship Grouping -- Descent and the Creation of Status -- References -- Chapter 4 The Role of the Extended Family in Exacting Blood Revenge in Classical Athens -- Pylades and Orestes -- Vengeance for Kin at Athens -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 Domestic Architecture in Ephesus from the Hellenistic Period to Late Antiquity -- References -- Part III The Roman World
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Chapter 6 Traces of the Unfamiliar: Epigraphic Evidence for Extended Families on the Margins in Roman Italy -- Introduction -- The Vigiles of Ostia and the Transtiberim -- The Palace Slaves of Imperial Rome -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7 Extended Families and Family Substitutes among Migrants in the Roman World -- Delos -- Soldiers at Rome -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8 Household Archaeology in Mediterranean Spain: Family Forms from Iberia to Hispania -- Introduction -- Domestic Architecture and Early Iron Age Societies -- Domestic Architecture and Late Iron Age Societies
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House, Family and Community: The Path Toward Social Division -- References -- Chapter 9 Egypt as Part of the Mediterranean? Domestic Space and Household Structures in Roman Egypt -- The Mediterranean Identity of Egypt -- The Climate and the House -- Evidence in the Papyri -- The Sons of Psemonches: Families in the City of the Childbirth Goddess -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 10 Towards an Archaeology of Household Relationships in Roman Egypt -- Introduction -- Theoretical Background: Households and Houses -- Methodology -- Discussion -- Conclusions -- References
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Chapter 11 Age Hierarchy and Social Networks among Urban Women in the Roman East -- Early Christian Texts -- Employing Analogies for Women's Worlds -- Older Women in 1 Timothy 5:3-16 -- Acts of Paul and Thecla -- References -- Chapter 12 Family Forms and Conflicts in Roman North Africa -- Introduction -- Roman and Christian North Africa -- Family and Power I: The Family of Nubel, African Power Brokers in between Rome and the Desert -- Family and Power II: Power Struggles in the Vandal Royal House -- Conclusion -- References -- Part IV Late Antiquity
Content:
Chapter 13 Extended Family in the Experiences of Ausonius and Libanius
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Description based upon print version of record
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781119143703
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781119143697
Additional Edition:
Print version Huebner, Sabine R Mediterranean Families in Antiquity : Households, Extended Families, and Domestic Space Newark : Wiley,c2016 ISBN 9781119143697
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