Married Life in Greco-Roman Antiquity (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Centlivres Challet, Claude-Emmanuelle

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Beyond the institution of marriage, its norms, and rules, what was life like for married couples in Greco-Roman antiquity? This volume explores a huge range of sources over seven centuries to uncover possible answers to this question.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000485813
• Artikelnr.: 63077788

Autorenporträt

Claude-Emmanuelle Centlivres Challet is Scientific Collaborator at the Institut d'Archéologie et des Sciences de l'Antiquité at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Her research interests and publications include genders and couple relationships (Like Man, Like Woman: Roman Women, Gender Qualities and Conjugal Relationships at the Turn of the First Century, 2013), family, sexuality, breastfeeding, breast pumps, infant feeding, Pliny the Younger, and Juvenal. Her next book explores gender pressure in Roman times.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Life Within an Ancient Knot: The Extraordinary within the Confines of the
Ordinary 2 Mind the Gap: Evidence (?) for Non-Elite Couples in the
Hellenistic Period 3 From Ideal to Reality: Married Couples on Hellenistic
Inscribed Grave Epigrams 4 Vilicus and Vilica in the De Agri Cultura: The
Elder Cato's Script for a Farming Couple 5 Literary Models and Social
Challenges: Marital Love According to Ovid in the Tristia and Epistulae Ex
Ponto 6 For Better or for Worse: Conjugal Relationships of Writers and
Intellectuals under the Challenges of the Empire 7 Worth Her Weight: Worthy
Women, Coupling, and Eating in Petronius' Satyrica 8 Reading Plutarch's
Marriage Precepts 9 Looking Ordinary: Ideals and Ideologies in the
Iconography of Married Couples in Roman Society 10 Material Aspects of
Marriage: Economic Transactions between Spouses in Roman Egypt 11 'For I
Have No Other Sun But You': Emotions and Married Life in Greek Papyri