Beryl Rawson / Paul Weaver (eds.)

The Roman Family in Italy

Status, Sentiment, Space
Herausgeber: Rawson, Beryl; Weaver, Paul

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Roman family is a key concept in the understanding of Roman society at all levels, from the aristocratic elite to slaves. The intertwined themes of status, sentiment, and space, with the use of many types of evidence, from the legal and literary to the iconographical and archaeological, enable the contributors to this book to set out new insights into the family life of the people of Roman Italy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. September 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 605g
• ISBN-13: 9780198152835
• ISBN-10: 0198152833
• Artikelnr.: 24075360

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Roman Kinship: Structure and Sentiment
Legal Stumbling-Blocks for Lower-Class Families in Rome
Children of Junian Latins
Rome and the Outside World: Senatorial Families and the World They Lived In
Sons, Slaves and Christians
Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Elderly Members of the Roman Family
Conflict in the Roman Family
Interpreting Epithets in Roman Epitaphs
The Iconography of Roman Childhood
Iconography: Another Perspective
Roman Familial Structures: A Regional Approach
Perceptions of Domestic Space in Roman Italy
Repopulating the Roman House
Artefact Distribution and Spatial Function in Pompeian Houses