Oxford Handbook of Childhood and Education in the Classical World

Herausgeber: Evans Grubbs, Judith; Parkin, Tim

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Produktbeschreibung

The Oxford Handbook of Childhood and Education in the Classical World is a comprehensive and forward-thinking study of an expanding subfield in classical studies

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 720
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 177mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 1207g
• ISBN-13: 9780199781546
• ISBN-10: 0199781540
• Artikelnr.: 38078303

Autorenporträt

Judith Evans Grubbs is Betty Gage Holland Professor of Roman History at Emory University. Tim Parkin is Professor of Ancient History at University of Manchester.

Inhaltsangabe

* CONTRIBUTORS
* ABBREVIATIONS
* INTRODUCTION
* PART I. GESTATION, BIRTH, DISEASE, AND DEATH
* 1. Véronique Dasen, Université de Fribourg
* "Becoming Human: from the Embryo to the Newborn Child"
* 2. Tim Parkin, University of Manchester
* "The Demography of Infancy and Early Childhood in the Ancient World"
* 3. Maria Liston and Susan Rotroff, University of Waterloo/Washington
University in St. Louis
* "Babies in the Well: Archaeological Evidence for Newborn Disposal in
Hellenistic Greece"
* 4. Judith Evans Grubbs, Emory University
* "(Not) Bringing up Baby: Infant Exposure and Infanticide"
* 5. Lesley Dean-Jones, University of Texas at Austin
* "The child patient of the Hippocratics: early Pediatrics?"
* 6. Christian Laes, University of Antwerp/Free University of Brussels
* "Raising a Disabled Child"
* PART II. CHILDREN AND CHILDHOOD IN ANCIENT GREECE
* 7. John Oakley, College of William and Mary
* "Children in Archaic and Classical Greek art: A Survey"
* 8. Susan Langdon, University of Missouri at Columbia
* "Children as Learners and Producers in Early Greece"
* 9. Lesley Beaumont, University of Sydney
* "Shifting Gender: Age and Social Status as Modifiers of Childhood
Gender in Ancient Athens"
* 10. Robert Garland, Colgate University
* "Children in Athenian Religion"
* 11. Louise Pratt, Emory University
* "Play, Pathos and Precocity: The Three 'P's of Greek Literary
Childhood"
* PART III. CHILDREN AND CHILDHOOD IN ANCIENT ROME
* 12. Mark Golden, University of Winnipeg
* "Children in Latin Epic"
* 13. Janette McWilliam, University of Queensland
* "The Socialization of Roman Children"
* 14. Hanne Sigismund Nielsen, University of Calgary
* "Slave and Lower-class Roman Children"
* 15. Lena Larsson Lovén, Gøteburg University
* "Children and Childhood in Roman Commemorative Art"
* 16. Mary Harlow, University of Birmingham
* "Toys, Dolls and the Material Culture of Childhood"
* 17. Thomas A.J. McGinn, Vanderbilt University
* "Roman Children and the Law"
* PART IV. EDUCATION AND EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY IN THE CLASSICAL WORLD
* 18. Cynthia Patterson, Emory University
* "Education in Plato's Laws"
* 19. Nigel Kennell, American School of Classical Studies at Athens
* "Boys, Girls, Family, and the State at Sparta"
* 20. Matthew Dillon, University of New England
* "Engendering the Scroll: Girls' and Women's Literacy in Classical
Greece"
* 21. Eric Casey, Sweet Briar College
* "Educating the Youth: the Athenian ephebeia in the Early Hellenistic
Era"
* 22. Martin Bloomer, University of Notre Dame
* "The Ancient Child in School"
* PART V. CHILDREN IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN
* 23. Maryline Parca, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
* "Children in Hellenistic Egypt: What the Papyri Say"
* 24. April Pudsey, Birkbeck College
* "Children in Roman Egypt"
* 25. Sabine Huebner, Max-Planck Institut, Rostock
* "Adoption and Fosterage in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean"
* 26. Hagith Sivan, University of Kansas
* "Pictorial paideia: Children in the Synagogue"
* PART VI. LATE ANTIQUITY AND EARLY CHRISTIANITY
* 27. Blake Leyerle, University of Notre Dame
* "Children and 'the Child' in early Christianity"
* 28. Ville Vuolanto, University of Tampere
* "Elite Children, Socialization and Agency in the Late Roman world"
* 29. Jenny Kreiger, University of Michigan
* "Remembering Children in the Roman Catacombs"
* 30. Susan Stevens, Randolph College
* "Stages of Infancy in Roman Amphora Burial"
* ENVOI
* Keith Bradley, University of Notre Dame
* INDEX