Marriage, Divorce, and Children in Ancient Rome

Zusatztext reader-friendly: plates have been added, technical terms and quotations from Greek and Latin are translated, the editor's brief introduction brings out themes with admirable clarity Informationen zum Autor Beryl Rawson is Professor of Classics at the Australian National University, Canberra. Klappentext Please note that this title has a 8 pp. plate section between pp. 114-115 Zusammenfassung The family has played a central role in most societies, and the complexity and variety of that role has engaged the minds of scholars from a wide range of disciplines. Recent studies of ancient Rome have shown that the sentimental ideal of a core nuclear family was strong throughout the period, but that the reality was often different. This book looks in detail at many aspects of the composition and inner workings of the Roman family and provides an illuminating case-study of the sentimental ideal vis-à-vis everyday reality. The areas of study covered are adult-child relationships (Beryl Rawson), the frequency of divorce (Susan Treggiari), divorce and adoption as familial strategies (Mireille Corbier), remarriage and the structure of the upper-class Roman family (K. R. Bradley), the sentimental ideal of the Roman family (Suzanne Dixon), fathers and sons (Emiel Eyben), familial authority and obedience (Richard Saller), children of freedmen (P. R. C. Weaver), and the impact of domestic architecture with reference to Pompeii and Herculaneum (Andrew Wallace-Hadrill).

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• Authors: Beryl Rawson, Beryl (Professor of Classics Rawson
• Assisted by: Beryl Rawson (Editor), Rawson Beryl (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.01.1996
• EAN: 9780198150459
• ISBN: 978-0-19-815045-9
• No. of pages: 266
• Series: OUP/Humanities Research Centre; OUP/Humanities Research Centre of the Australian National University Series; OUP/Humanities Research Centre of the Australian National University Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, HISTORY / Europe / General, Sociology: family & relationships, Ancient Rome, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Sociology: family and relationships