Children in antiquity perspectives and experiences of childhood in the ancient Mediterranean / edited by Lesley A. Beaumont, Matthew Dillon and Nicola Harrington.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Beaumont, Lesley A., editor.

Dillon, Matthew, 1963- editor.

Harrington, Nicola, editor.

Series:

Routledge handbooks

Rewriting antiquity

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children--Mediterranean Region--History--To 1500.

Children.

Children--Mediterranean Region--Social conditions.

Social archaeology--Mediterranean Region.

Social archaeology.

Social conditions.

History.

Mediterranean Region--Antiquities.

Mediterranean Region.

Antiquities.

Children--Social conditions.

Genre:

Electronic books.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2020.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Lesley A. Beaumont is Associate Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Sydney. Her many publications on children in classical antiquity include Childhood in Ancient Athens: Iconography and Social History (Routledge 2012). She co-organised the 2015 international conference on "Children in Antiquity" at the University of Sydney and co-curated the accompanying Nicholson Museum exhibition. Matthew Dillon is Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the University of New England, Armidale, Australia. He has written extensively on Greek religion and society. Nicola Harrington is anEgyptologist and Honorary Research Associate of the University of Sydney. She received her DPhil from the University of Oxford, and her doctoral thesis formed the basis of the monograph Living with the Dead: Ancestor Worship and Mortuary Cult in Ancient Egypt (2012). Her research interests include religion, childhood, and mental illness in antiquity.

Summary:

This collection employs a multi-disciplinary approach treating ancient childhood in a holistic manner according to diachronic, regional and thematic perspectives. This multi-disciplinary approach encompasses classical studies, Egyptology, ancient history and the broad spectrum of archaeology, including iconography and bioarchaeology. With a chronological range of the Bronze Age to Byzantium and regional coverage of Egypt, Greece, and Italy this is the largest survey of childhood yet undertaken for the ancient world. Within this chronological and regional framework both the social construction of childhood and the child's life experience are explored through the key topics of the definition of childhood, daily life, religion and ritual, death, and the information provided by bioarchaeology. No other volume to date provides such a comprehensive, systematic and cross-cultural study of childhood in the ancient Mediterranean world. In particular, its focus on the identification of society-specific definitions of childhood and the incorporation of the bioarchaeological perspective makes this work a unique and innovative study. Children in Antiquity provides an invaluable and unrivalled resource for anyone working on all aspects of the lives and deaths of children in the ancient Mediterranean world.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

113487068X

9781315542812

1315542811

9781134870820

1134870825

9781134870752

1134870752

9781134870684

OCLC:

1228889420

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Restricted for use by site license.