A companion to families in the Greek and Roman worlds /

A companion to families in the Greek and Roman worlds /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Rawson, Beryl
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
Series:Wiley Online Library.
Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Literature and culture.
Subjects:
Families > Rome > History.
Families > Greece > History.
Dwellings > Rome > History.
Dwellings > Greece > History.
Rome > Social life and customs.
Greece > Social life and customs.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Houses and households
  • Family and household, ancient history and archaeology : a case-study from Roman Egypt / Lisa Nevett
  • Space and social relationships in the Greek oikos of the classical and Hellenistic periods / Monika Trumper
  • Space and social relations in the Roman west / Jens-Arne Dickmann
  • Household composition in the ancient Mediterranean - what do we really know? / Sabine R. Huebner
  • The royal families of Argead Macedon and the Hellenistic world / Daniel Ogden
  • Monogamy and polygyny / Walter Scheidel
  • The Roman family as productive unit / Richard Saller
  • The families of Roman slaves and freedmen / Henrik Mouritsen
  • Foreign families in Roman Italy / David Noy
  • Soldiers' families in the early Roman empire / Penelope Allison
  • The household as a venue for religious conversion : the case of Christianity / Kate Cooper
  • What we do and don't know about early Christian families / Carolyn Osie
  • Kinship, marriage, parents, and children
  • Consubstantiality, incest and kinship in ancient Greece / Jerome Wilgaux
  • Marriage in ancient Athens / Cheryl A. Cox
  • From ceremonial to sexualities : a survey of scholarship on Roman marriage / Suzanne Dixon
  • Other people's children / Mark Golden
  • The Roman life course and the family / Tim Parkin
  • Childbirth and infancy in Greek and Roman antiquity / Veronique Dasen
  • Grieving for lost children, Pagan and Christian / Christian Laes
  • The legal side
  • Greek law and the family / Eva Cantarella
  • Adoption and heirship in Greece and Rome / Hugh Lindsay
  • Roman "horror" of intestacy? / Jane F. Gardner
  • Promoting pietas through Roman law / Judith Evans Grubbs
  • City and country
  • Greek cities and families / Sara Saba
  • A walk with the dead: a funerary cityscape of ancient Rome / Christopher Johanson
  • The family and the Roman countryside / Stephen L. Dyson
  • Ritual, commemoration, values
  • Families and religion in classical Greece / Janett E. Morgan
  • Picturing Greek families / Ada Cohen
  • Celebrating the saturnalia : religious ritual and Roman domestic life / Fanny Dolansky
  • Ethos : the socialization of children in education and beyond / Teresa Morgan
  • Picturing the Roman family / Janet Huskinson
  • Devotional visuality in family funerary monuments in the Roman world / Janet H. Tulloch.