Children in Antiquity

Perspectives and Experiences of Childhood in the Ancient Mediterranean
Herausgeber: Beaumont, Lesley A; Harrington, Nicola; Dillon, Matthew

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection employs a multi-disciplinary approach treating ancient childhood in a holistic manner according to diachronic, regional and thematic perspectives. This multi-disciplinary approach encompasses Classical Studies, Egyptology, ancient history and the broad spectrum of archaeology, including iconography and forensic science.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 620
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 178mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 1451g
• ISBN-13: 9781138780866
• ISBN-10: 1138780863
• Artikelnr.: 43677070

Autorenporträt

Lesley A. Beaumont is Associate Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Sydney. Her many publications on children in classical antiquity include Childhood in Ancient Athens: Iconography and Social History (Routledge 2012). She co-organised the 2015 international conference on "Children in Antiquity" at the University of Sydney and co-curated the accompanying Nicholson Museum exhibition. Matthew Dillon is Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the University of New England, Armidale, Australia. He has written extensively on Greek religion and society. Nicola Harrington is an Egyptologist and Honorary Research Associate of the University of Sydney. She received her DPhil from the University of Oxford, and her doctoral thesis formed the basis of the monograph Living with the Dead: Ancestor Worship and Mortuary Cult in Ancient Egypt (2012). Her research interests include religion, childhood, and mental illness in antiquity.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: investigating the ancient Mediterranean 'childscape' PART I:
What is a child? 1. The ancient Egyptian conception of children and
childhood 2. What is a child in Aegean prehistory? 3. Ideological
constructions of childhood in Bronze and Early Iron Age Italy: personhood
between marginality and social inclusion 4. Defi ning childhood and youth:
a regional approach to Archaic and Classical Greece: the case of Athens and
Sparta 5. The child in Etruscan Italy 6. Children and the Hellenistic
period 7. Roman childhood revisited 8. From birth to rebirth: perceptions
of childhood in Greco-Roman Egypt 9. Looking for children in Late Antiquity
10. From village to monastery: fi nding children in the Coptic record from
Egypt PART II: Daily life 11. The child's experience of daily life in
ancient Egypt 12. Changing states: daily life of children in Mycenaean and
Early Iron Age Greece 13. Children in early Rome and Latium 14. Being a
child in Archaic and Classical Greece 15. The daily life of Etruscan babies
and children 16. Being a child in the Hellenistic world: a subject out of
proportion? 17. Different lives: children's daily experiences in the Roman
world 18. Children as instruments of policy in Hadrian's Egypt 19. Daily
life of children in Late Antiquity: play, work and vulnerability PART III:
Religion and ritual 20. "Child in the nest": children in Pharaonic Egyptian
religion and rituals 21. Children and Aegean Bronze Age religion 22.
Initiating children into Italian Bronze and Early Iron Age ritual, religion
and cosmology 23. Children in Archaic and Classical Greek religion: active
and passive ritual agency 24. Children in Etruscan religion and ritual 25.
Children's roles in Hellenistic religion 26. Children in Roman religion and
ritual 27. Children, religion and ritual in Greco-Roman Egypt 28. The child
in Late Antique religion and ritual PART IV: Death 29. Child, infant and
foetal burials in the Egyptian archaeological record: exploring cultural
capacities from the Predynastic to Middle Kingdom Periods (c. 4400-1650 BC)
30. "Do not say 'I am young to be taken' ": children and death in ancient
Egypt: Second Intermediate Period to the Late Period 31. Children and death
in Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Greece 32. Children, death and society in
Late Bronze Age and Iron Age Sicily 33. Children and death in Archaic and
Classical Greece 34. Infancy and childhood in funerary contexts of Early
Iron Age Middle Tyrrhenian Italy: a comparative approach 35. Child death in
the Hellenistic world 36. Death of a Roman child 37. Death of a child:
demographic and preparation trends of juvenile burials in the Graeco-Roman
Fayoum 38. Infant mortality, Michael Psellos and the Byzantine demon Gillo
PART V: Bioarchaeology 39. The bioarchaeology of children in Greco-Roman
antiquity 40. Infancy and childhood in Roman Egypt: bioarchaeological
perspectives 41. "The greatest of treasures": advances in the
bioarchaeology of Byzantine children