The Roman family in the empire Rome, Italy, and beyond edited by Michele George

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

E. Togo Salmon Conference (4th : 2001 : McMaster University)

Contributor:

George, Michele

Conference Name:

E. Togo Salmon Conference (4th : 2001 : McMaster University)

Series:

OUP E-Books

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Families--Rome--Congresses.

Families.

Rome (Empire).

Genre:

proceedings (reports)

Conference papers and proceedings

Physical Description:

1 online resource

polychrome.

Place of Publication:

Oxford New York Oxford University Press 2005

Summary:

This book examines family life in the Roman empire and Italy, focusing on the influence of Rome on provincial family structure and attitudes towards family life as well as regional differences in family structure, forms of marriage, and kinship patterns. The chapters cover Roman Egypt, Judaea, Spain, Gaul, North Africa, and Pannonia, and make use of both conventional textual sources and epigraphic evidence, as well as material that is less frequently treated, such as the medical writers and the Justinianic receipts. Notions surrounding the family are explored in the abstract and in reality, such as the idea of family as used in the forensic works of Cicero as a touchstone for elite morality, especially for men, and how the social family norms of pietas and affection informed the identity of the Roman nobility. A discussion of family portrait groups on Republican and early imperial funerary commemoration takes up the same set of attitudes toward family life and shows how the emerging urban middle class of Italy, former slaves in Rome and citizens of mixed origins in Cisalpine Gaul, used family imagery to position themselves in the mainstream culture. There is also a chapter on the harder side of ancient family life in a survey of diseases and treatments of illnesses, thus retrieving a sobering dimension of ancient experience which is radically different from the modern. The remaining chapters look at family life in the Roman world outside Italy in a systematic way focusing on specific regions

Contents:

Putting the family across : Cicero on natural affection Susan Treggiari Family imagery and family values in Roman Italy Michele George The Roman child in sickness and in health Keith Bradley Parent-child conflict in the Roman family : the evidence of the Code of Justinian Judith Evans Grubbs Searching for the Romano-Egyptian family Richard Alston The Jewish family in Judaea from Pompey to Hadrian : the limits of romanization Margaret Williams Family relations in Roman Lusitania : social change in a Roman province? Jonathan Edmondson Family history in the Roman north-west Greg Woolf Family and kinship in Roman Africa Mireille Corbier Children and parents on the tombstones of Pannonia Mary T. Boatwright

Notes:

"Most papers in this volume were given at the Fourth E.T. Salmon Conference in Roman Studies held at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada, in September 2001"--Preface

Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-353) and index

Print version record

Other Format:

Print version E. Togo Salmon Conference (4th : 2001 : McMaster University). Roman family in the empire

ISBN:

9780191514951

0191514950

9781423786702

142378670X

9786610757633

6610757631

9780191708589

0191708585

1280757639

9781280757631

OCLC:

70221398

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