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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
Über den Autor / die Autorin
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).
Zusammenfassung
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
