Constructions of childhood in ancient Greece and Italy / edited by Ada Cohen and Jeremy B. Rutter.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cohen, Ada.

Rutter, Jeremy B.

Series:

Hesperia (Princeton, N.J.). Supplement ; 41.

Hesperia supplement ; 41

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Children.

Mediterranean Region.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiii, 429 pages) : illustrations (some color), map.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2007.

Contents:

Childhood between past and present / by Ada Cohen

The parental ethos of the Iliad / by Louise Pratt

Children in classical Attic votive reliefs / by Carol L. Lawton

The power of parenthood in official Roman art / by Jeannine Diddle Uzzi

Behaving like a child : immature gestures in Athenian vase painting / by Timothy J. McNiven

Paideia's children : childhood education in a group of late antique mosaics / by Constantin A. Marinescu, Sarah E. Cox and Rudolf Wachter

Educating Paula : a proposed curriculum for raising a 4th-century Christian infant / by Phyllis B. Katz

Children at risk : votive terracottas and the welfare of infants at Paestum / by Rebecca Miller Ammerman

Komos growing up among satyrs and children / by Amy C. Smith

The awkward age : art and maturation in early Greece / by Susan Langdon

Age and innocence : female transitions to adulthood in late antiquity / by Lisa A. Alberici and Mary Harlow

Children's work : girls as acolytes in Aegean ritual and cult / by Paul Rehak

Boys will be boys : youth and gender identity in the Theran frescoes / by Anne C. Chapin

Gendering the age gap : boys, girls and abduction in ancient Greek art / by Ada Cohen

Childhood among the Etruscans : mortuary programs at Tarquinia as indicators of the transition to adult status / by Marhsall Joseph Becker

Notions of childhood in the classical polis : evidence from the bioarchaeological record / by Anna Lagia

Forever young : an investigation of the depictions of children on classical Attic funerary monuments / by Janet Burnett Grossman

Constructing childhood on Roman funerary memorials / by Janet Huskinson

Racing with death : circus sarcophagi and the commemoration of children in Roman Italy / by Eve D'Ambra

Eros and the lizard : children, animals and Roman funerary sculpture / by Jean Sorabella

Children as poets, poets as children? : Romantic constructions of childhood and Hellenistic poetry / by Annemarie Ambuhl.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-412) and index.

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Constructions of childhood in ancient Greece and Italy.

OCLC:

748682914

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