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Companion to Families in the Greek and Roman Worlds

English · Paperback / Softback

Will be released 31.07.2016

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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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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).

Summary

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

Product details

Authors Beryl Rawson, Beryl (Australian National University Rawson
Assisted by Bery Rawson (Editor), Beryl Rawson (Editor), Rawson Beryl (Editor)
Publisher Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Release 31.07.2016, delayed
 
EAN 9781119266839
ISBN 978-1-119-26683-9
No. of pages 664
Series Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
Subjects Humanities, art, music > History

Antike, Römisches Reich, Griechenland /Alte Geschichte, Klassisches Altertum, ancient culture, Sociology: family and relationships, Classical Studies, Humanistische Studien

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