A Companion to Families in the Greek and Roman Worlds
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Recent decades have witnessed a dramatic surge of interest in the study of families in the ancient Mediterranean world. A Companion to Families in the Greek and Roman Worlds draws from both established and current scholarship to offer a broad and interdisciplinary overview of the field, engage in contemporary debates, and pose stimulating questions about future development in the study of families. Employing new methodologies and relying on textual and visual evidence from a variety of disciplines, this international team of contributors presents important new insights into life in ancient…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
Recent decades have witnessed a dramatic surge of interest in the study of families in the ancient Mediterranean world. A Companion to Families in the Greek and Roman Worlds draws from both established and current scholarship to offer a broad and interdisciplinary overview of the field, engage in contemporary debates, and pose stimulating questions about future development in the study of families.
Employing new methodologies and relying on textual and visual evidence from a variety of disciplines, this international team of contributors presents important new insights into life in ancient Greece and Rome and serves to broaden our understanding of the social structures of classical antiquity.
A Companion to Families in the Greek and Roman Worlds draws from both established and current scholarship to offer a broad overview of the field, engage in contemporary debates, and pose stimulating questions about future development in the study of families.

Provides up-to-date research on family structure from archaeology, art, social, cultural, and economic history
Includes contributions from established and rising international scholars
Features illustrations of families, children, slaves, and ritual life, along with maps and diagrams of sites and dwellings
Honorable Mention for 2011 Single Volume Reference/Humanities & Social Sciences PROSE award granted by the Association of American Publishers
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Autorenporträt
Beryl Rawson is Professor Emerita and Adjunct Professor in Classics at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. She is the author of The Politics of Friendship: Pompey and Cicero (1978) and Children and Childhood in Roman Italy (2003), and the editor of The Family in Ancient Rome: New Perspectives (1986), Marriage, Divorce and Children in Ancient Rome (1991), and The Roman Family in Italy (with Paul Weaver, 1997).