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Ancient youth : the ambiguity of youth and the absence of adolescence in Greco-Roman society / Marc Kleijwegt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kleijwegt, Marc, author.
- Series:
- Dutch monographs on ancient history and archaeology ; Volume 8.
- Dutch Monographs on Ancient History and Archaeology Series ; Volume 8
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Youth--Rome.
- Youth.
- Youth--Greece.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (417 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam : J.C. Gieben, [1991]
- Contents:
- Intro
- ANCIENT YOUTH: The ambiguity of youth and the absence of adolescence in Greco-Roman society
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction: Adolescence in historical perspective
- 1 Two theories on childhood and adolescence
- Margaret Mead and adolescence
- Polynesian adolescence after Mead
- Philippe Aries and traditional society
- After Aries
- Man is changeable: the view of Van den Berg
- Mead and Aries and ancient society
- 2 Youth or adolescence?
- Introduction
- Adolescence in preindustrial Europe?
- Life-cycle servants
- The ambiguity of youth
- Conclusion
- 3 Adolescence and ancient society
- The status of adulthood in ancient society
- The young as natural successors to the older generation
- The two stereotypes of youth
- 4 Youth and education in ancient society
- Who received education in ancient society?
- Education as a status-determinant
- Age-grades in ancient education
- Infant prodigies
- 5 The physician in ancient society
- The physician as an intellectual
- The social status of the physician in the Hellenistic-Roman period
- The physician in comparative perspective
- The training of young physicians
- 6 Legal professions
- Lawyers in non-literary sources
- Status and activities of nomikoi
- Age and education of young lawyers
- 7 Senatorial youth
- The Roman senate: a perfect gerontocracy
- Politics in late medieval Venice
- 8 Roman knights
- 9 Youth and politics in the Greek East
- Expectations concerning young politicians-in-spe
- The young benefactor
- Offices and nominal office-holding
- Offices
- Teenagers and nominal office-holding
- Hereditary council membership and patrobouloi
- 10 Youth and municipal councils in the West
- Oligarchy and 'homines novi': a new problem
- Exclusivism in the ancient world.
- Heterogeneity inside the council
- Hereditary membership?
- Praetextati and the legal minimum-age
- Underage councillors
- The evidence
- Bibliography
- Index of inscriptions
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Kleijwegt, M. Ancient Youth
- ISBN:
- 9789004526594
- OCLC:
- 1396878460
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