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Ancient youth : the ambiguity of youth and the absence of adolescence in Greco-Roman society / Marc Kleijwegt.

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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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