UID:
almahu_9949401863002882
Format:
1 online resource (xvii, 382 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781009128452 (ebook)
Series Statement:
Greek culture in the Roman world
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:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Oct 2022).
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Hieradoumia -- Commemorative Cultures -- Demography -- Kinship Terminology -- Household Forms -- The Circulation of Children -- Beyond the Family -- Rural Sanctuaries -- Village Society -- City, Village, Kin-Group.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9781009123211
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009128452
