Format:
xvii, 382 Seiten
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Illustrationen, Karten, Diagramme
ISBN:
9781009123211
Series Statement:
Greek culture in the Roman world
Content:
"This is the first detailed ethnographic analysis of the kinship structure, religious life, culture and ethics of an ancient rural community. It will be essential reading for all historians of the Greco-Roman world, and will also be of interest to anthropologists interested in kinship and pre-modern rural societies"--
Content:
Our conception of the culture and values of the ancient Greco-Roman world is largely based on texts and material evidence left behind by a small and atypical group of city-dwellers. The people of the deep Mediterranean countryside seldom appear in the historical record from antiquity, and almost never as historical actors. This book is the first extended historical ethnography of an ancient village society, based on an extraordinarily rich body of funerary and propitiatory inscriptions from a remote upland region of Roman Asia Minor. Rural kinship structures and household forms are analysed in detail, as are the region's demography, religious life, gender relations, class structure, normative standards and values. Roman north-east Lydia is perhaps the only non-urban society in the Greco-Roman world whose culture can be described at so fine-grained a level of detail: a world of tight-knit families, egalitarian values, hard agricultural labour, village solidarity, honour, piety and love
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781009128452
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Thonemann, Peter, 1978 - The lives of ancient villages Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022 ISBN 9781009128452
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
DOI:
10.1017/9781009128452
Author information:
Thonemann, Peter 1978-
