Families in the Greco-Roman World

Professor Ray Laurence, Dr Agneta Stromberg (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

216 Seiten

2013
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-4725-0574-3 (ISBN)

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The family has been recognised in the ancient world as the key social institution on which both society and the state are based. However, in the pre-Classical and Classical world the family was constructed in dissimilar ways and provides the means to explaining why the civilizations of the ancient Mediterranean, although sharing many cultural features, in fact differed greatly. This volume draws on the most recent work of leading scholars in the field with the aim of establishing a new understanding of the ancient family for the 21st century. In so doing, the book includes new approaches to social institutions, depictions of women and children, the Seleucid dynasty as a negative model of family, the inclusion of Etruscan societies, and a fundamental re-assessment of the family in antiquity.

Ray Laurence is Professor of Classical and Archaeological Studies at the University of Kent, UK. He is the author of many titles including Pompeii The Living City (with Alex Butterworth) which was awarded the Longman-History Today New Generation Prize 2006. Agneta Stromberg is a senior lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

1. Introduction: From Oikos to Familia - Looking Forward? - Laurence
2. Beyond Oikos and Domus: Modern Kinship Studies and the Ancient Family - Harders
3. Taking a Wider View: Greco-Roman Families and Political Demography Theory - Hin
4. More Than Just Gender: The Classical Oikos as a Site for Intersectionality - Sjoberg
5. Tracing the Oikos in Pre-Classical Corinth: The Perspective of Iconography - Avramidou
6. The Language of the Oikos and theLanguage of Power in the Seleucid Kingdom - Coloru
7. Inheritance, Priesthoods and Succession in Classical Athens: The Hierophantai of the Eumolpidai - Bubelis
8. Women in the Hellenistic Family: The Evidence of Funerary Epigrams - Kotlinska-Toma
9. Family Relationships in Late Bronze Age, Iron Age and Early Roman Veneto: Preliminary Considerations on the Basis of Osteological Analysis and Epigraphy - Perego
10. Gender, Household Structure and Slavery: Re-interpreting the Aristocratic Columbaria of Early Imperial Rome - Penner
11. Houses, Painting, Family Emotion - Kampen
12. The Future of the Ancient Greek Family - Golden

Erscheint lt. Verlag	2.9.2013
Reihe/Serie	The Family in Antiquity
Zusatzinfo	15
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	313 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	1-4725-0574-3 / 1472505743
ISBN-13	978-1-4725-0574-3 / 9781472505743
Zustand	Neuware