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A companion to families in the Greek and Roman worlds / edited by Beryl Rawson.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Literature and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Families--Rome--History.
- Families.
- Families--Greece--History.
- Dwellings--Rome--History.
- Dwellings.
- Dwellings--Greece--History.
- History.
- Rome--Social life and customs.
- Rome.
- Rome (Empire).
- Manners and customs.
- Greece--Social life and customs.
- Greece.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xviii, 643 pages) : illustrations, map.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Houses and households
- Family and household, ancient history and archaeology : a case-study from Roman Egypt / Lisa Nevett
- Space and social relationships in the Greek oikos of the classical and Hellenistic periods / Monika Trumper
- Space and social relations in the Roman west / Jens-Arne Dickmann
- Household composition in the ancient Mediterranean - what do we really know? / Sabine R. Huebner
- The royal families of Argead Macedon and the Hellenistic world / Daniel Ogden
- Monogamy and polygyny / Walter Scheidel
- The Roman family as productive unit / Richard Saller
- The families of Roman slaves and freedmen / Henrik Mouritsen
- Foreign families in Roman Italy / David Noy
- Soldiers' families in the early Roman empire / Penelope Allison
- The household as a venue for religious conversion : the case of Christianity / Kate Cooper
- What we do and don't know about early Christian families / Carolyn Osie
- Kinship, marriage, parents, and children
- Consubstantiality, incest and kinship in ancient Greece / Jerome Wilgaux
- Marriage in ancient Athens / Cheryl A. Cox
- From ceremonial to sexualities : a survey of scholarship on Roman marriage / Suzanne Dixon
- Other people's children / Mark Golden
- The Roman life course and the family / Tim Parkin
- Childbirth and infancy in Greek and Roman antiquity / Veronique Dasen
- Grieving for lost children, Pagan and Christian / Christian Laes
- The legal side
- Greek law and the family / Eva Cantarella
- Adoption and heirship in Greece and Rome / Hugh Lindsay
- Roman "horror" of intestacy? / Jane F. Gardner
- Promoting pietas through Roman law / Judith Evans Grubbs
- City and country
- Greek cities and families / Sara Saba
- A walk with the dead: a funerary cityscape of ancient Rome / Christopher Johanson
- The family and the Roman countryside / Stephen L. Dyson
- Ritual, commemoration, values
- Families and religion in classical Greece / Janett E. Morgan
- Picturing Greek families / Ada Cohen
- Celebrating the saturnalia : religious ritual and Roman domestic life / Fanny Dolansky
- Ethos : the socialization of children in education and beyond / Teresa Morgan
- Picturing the Roman family / Janet Huskinson
- Devotional visuality in family funerary monuments in the Roman world / Janet H. Tulloch.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Hoboken, N.J. Available via World Wide Web.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Louis A. Duhring Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Companion to families in the Greek and Roman worlds.
- ISBN:
- 9781444390766
- 1444390767
- Publisher Number:
- 99947666987
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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