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A Companion to Families in the Greek and Roman Worlds draws from both established and current scholarship to offer a broad overview of the field, engage in contemporary debates, and pose stimulating questions about future development in the study of families.

Provides up-to-date research on family structure from archaeology, art, social, cultural, and economic history
Includes contributions from established and rising international scholars
Features illustrations of families, children, slaves, and ritual life, along with maps and diagrams of sites and dwellings
Honorable Mention for 2011 Single Volume Reference/Humanities & Social Sciences PROSE award granted by the Association of American Publishers

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Recent decades have witnessed a dramatic surge of interest in the study of families in the ancient Mediterranean world. Social history has only recently extended its scope to include women, children, slaves, and foreigners, giving birth to a new definition of 'the family' that recognizes the great diversity of family forms in classical antiquity. A Companion to Families in the Greek and Roman Worlds draws from both established and current scholarship to offer a broad and interdisciplinary overview of the field, engage in contemporary debates, and pose stimulating questions about future development in the study of families.

Employing new methodologies and relying on textual and visual evidence from a variety of disciplines, such as archaeology, art, law, and early Christianity, this international team of contributors presents important new insights into life in ancient Greece and Rome and serves to broaden our understanding of the social structures of classical antiquity.

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Title A Companion to Families in the Greek and Roman Worlds
Author Beryl Rawson
Binding Hardcover
Edition number 1st
Edition 1
Pages 672
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Wiley-Blackwell
Date 2011-01-18
ISBN 9781405187671 / 1405187670
Weight 2.91 lbs (1.32 kg)
Dimensions 9.8 x 6.9 x 1.7 in (24.89 x 17.53 x 4.32 cm)
Themes
- Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
Library of Congress subjects Rome - Social life and customs, Greece - Social life and customs
Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010025065
Dewey Decimal Code 306.850

About the author

Beryl Rawson is Professor Emerita and Adjunct Professor in Classics at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. She is the author of The Politics of Friendship: Pompey and Cicero (1978) and Children and Childhood in Roman Italy (2003), and the editor of The Family in Ancient Rome: New Perspectives (1986), Marriage, Divorce and Children in Ancient Rome (1991), and The Roman Family in Italy (with Paul Weaver, 1997).

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West Sussex: Blackwell, 2011. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. Large octavo. 7 x 10 in. xviii, 643 pp. Fine in original cloth boards and near fine pictorial dust jacket with small stain to foot of lower panel.