Family lives : aspects of life and death in ancient families / edited by Kristine Bøggild Johannsen & Jane Hjarl Petersen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bøggild Johannsen, Kristine, editor.

Petersen, Jane Hjarl, editor.

Collegium Hyperboreum, organizer.

Series:

Acta Hyperborea ; 0904-2067 15.

Acta Hyperborea : Danish studies in classical archaeology, 0904-2067 ; 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Families--Greece--Social life and customs.

Families.

Families--Rome--Social life and customs.

Families--Italy--Etruria--Social life and customs--Congresses.

Funeral rites and ceremonies--Greece--Congresses.

Funeral rites and ceremonies.

Funeral rites and ceremonies--Rome--Congresses.

Funeral rites and ceremonies--Italy--Etruria--Congresses.

Antiquities.

Manners and customs.

Greece--Antiquities--Congresses.

Greece.

Rome--Antiquities--Congresses.

Rome.

Etruria--Antiquities--Congresses.

Etruria.

Civilization, Greco-Roman--Congresses.

Civilization, Greco-Roman.

Rome (Empire).

Italy.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

341 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimles, map, plan, portraits ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Copenhagen : Museum Tusculanum Press, 2019.

Contents:

The farming Oikos as place: reflections on economy, social interaction and gender in Classical Attica / Jens Krasilnikoff

Family disaster on stage: polis orchstration of Greek tragedy / Synnøve des Bouvrie

Terracotta figurines as votive offerings for both the individual and the family / Sanne Hoffmann

The prothesis: a ritualized construction of everyday social space in Ancient Greek society / Birgitta Leppänen Sjöberg

Children in Etruscan funeral iconography: representations of families on urns, sarcophagi and in wall paintings / Anna Sofie S. Ahlén

Human or divine?: a new interpretation of a female image on the lid of Velthur Partunu's sarcophagus / Liv Carøe

Almost invisible: the familes of the marines stationed in Rome / Niels Bargfeldt

Roman freedmen and virtus: constructing masculinity in the public sphere / Lisa Hagelin

Women's music-making in the Roman family context: an expression of social status / Erika Lindgren Liljenstolpe

Defining social power through family: the iconography of imperial siblinghood in 2nd century Rome / Sann Joska

Family matters: family constellations in Palmyrene funerary sculpture / Rubina Raja

A social approach to the sex and age distribution in mummy portraits / Bjare B. Purup

A Roman man's best friend: an exploration of the meaning of a small dog on a funerary monument in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen / Christina Hildebrandt

Painting Roman portraits: colour-coding social and cultural identities / Amalie Skovmøller.

Notes:

"The present volume takes as its point of departure a seminar entitled 'Families in the Ancient World' that was arranged by the Danish research network Collegium Hyperboreum on 12-13 November 2015"--Page 7.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9788763546393

8763546396

OCLC:

1076799985