Mediterranean families in antiquity : households, extended families, and domestic space / edited by Sabine R. Huebner and Geoffrey Nathan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Huebner, Sabine R., 1976- editor.

Nathan, Geoffrey S. (Geoffrey Stephen), 1963- editor.

Series:

THEi Wiley ebooks.

THEi Wiley ebooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Families--Mediterranean Region.

Families.

Social history--To 500.

Social history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (371 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex, England : Wiley-Blackwell, 2017.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Access using campus network via VPN at home (THEi Users Only).

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

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

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

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

Part III The Roman World

Chapter 6 Traces of the Unfamiliar: Epigraphic Evidence for Extended Families on the Margins in Roman Italy

The Vigiles of Ostia and the Transtiberim

The Palace Slaves of Imperial Rome

Chapter 7 Extended Families and Family Substitutes among Migrants in the Roman World

Delos

Soldiers at Rome

Chapter 8 Household Archaeology in Mediterranean Spain: Family Forms from Iberia to Hispania

Domestic Architecture and Early Iron Age Societies

Domestic Architecture and Late Iron Age Societies

House, Family and Community: The Path Toward Social Division

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

Chapter 10 Towards an Archaeology of Household Relationships in Roman Egypt

Theoretical Background: Households and Houses

Methodology

Discussion

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

Chapter 12 Family Forms and Conflicts in Roman North Africa

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

Part IV Late Antiquity

Chapter 13 Extended Family in the Experiences of Ausonius and Libanius

Introduction: Setting the Problem

Test Cases

The Control Group: Immediate Family

Paternal and Maternal Uncles and Aunts

Other Extended Kin

Chapter 14 Household and Family Dynamics in Late Antique Southern Gaul

Interpreting the Sources

The Protagonists

The Late Roman Family Ideal in Gaul

Childcare in Early Years: Parents and Other Relatives

Education and Educators in Later Childhood Years

Family and Household: The Role of Servants

Extended and Multiple Family

Part V Outlook in Later Period of the Mediterranean

Chapter 15 Missing Women in the Italian Middle Ages? Data and Interpretation

The Missing Females of Italy: Sex Ratio in Medieval Sources

Hypotheses on the Invisibility of Females in Cemeteries.

Exposure, Oblation, Infanticide by Neglect

A Meta-analysis of European Cemeteries: Data, Samples, and Results

The Italian Peculiarity: Some Hypotheses

Appendix: Death Sex Ratio and Mortality Levels

Chapter 16 Family Forms in Later Periods of the Mediterranean

The Search for a Mediterranean Family System in Modern Times

Mediterranean or Southern Europe?

In Search of the Ancient Roots of Modern Mediterranean Family Systems

Part VI Conclusion

Chapter 17 Reassessing the Premodern Mediterranean Family

Household Structures

Patriarchy, Patrilineality and Patrilocality

Extended Family

Future Directions

Index

EULA.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781119143727

1119143721

9781119143734

111914373X

9781119143703

1119143705

OCLC:

948748676