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Children, memory, and family identity in Roman culture / edited by Veronique Dasen and Thomas Späth.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- Roman Family Conference (5th : 2007 : Fribourg, Switzerland)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Families--Rome--History.
- Families.
- Rome--Social conditions.
- Rome.
- Rome (Empire).
- Social conditions.
- Rome--Civilization.
- Civilization.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 373 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Other Title:
- Children, memory, & family identity in Roman culture
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Véronique Dasen and Thomas Späth
- Remembering one's ancestors, following in their footsteps, being like them : the role and forms of family memory in the building of identity / Catherine Baroin
- Roman patchwork families : surrogate parenting, socialization, and the shaping of tradition / Ann-Cathrin Harders
- Children and the transmission of religious knowledge / Francesca Prescendi
- Women and children in ancient landscape / Michel E. Fuchs
- Wax and plaster memories : children in elite and non-elite strategies / Véronique Dasen
- Cicero, Tullia, and Marcus : gender-specific concerns for family tradition? / Thomas Späth
- Children and the memory of parents in the late Roman world / Ville Vuolanto
- Degrees of freedom : vernae and Junian Latins in the Roman familia / Beryl Rawson
- Modestia vs. licentia : Seneca on childhood and status in the Roman family / Francesca Mencacci
- Delicia-children revisited : the evidence of Statius' Silvae / Christian Laes
- The sick child in his family : a risk for the family tradition / Danielle Gourevitch
- Hidden in plain sight : expositi in the community / Judith Evans Grubbs
- Rome : the invisible children of incest / Philippe Moreau.
- Notes:
- Selected papers from the 5th Roman Family Conference, entitled Secret families, family secrets, held in Fribourg, Switzerland June 2007.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Orville H. Bullitt Classics Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780199582570
- 0199582572
- OCLC:
- 587229761
- Publisher Number:
- 99942730156
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