Lives of Ancient Villages - Rural Society in Roman Anatolia

A ground-breaking historical ethnography of kinship, religion, and village society in a remote rural backwater of the Roman world.

Sommario

1. Hieradoumia; 2. Commemorative cultures; 3. Demography; 4. Kinship terminology; 5. Household forms; 6. The circulation of children; 7. Beyond the family; 8. Rural sanctuaries; 9. Village society; 10. City, village, kin-group.

Info autore

Peter Thonemann is Forrest-Derow Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History at Wadham College, Oxford. His books include The Maeander Valley: A Historical Geography from Antiquity to Byzantium (Cambridge, 2011), which won the 2012 Runciman Prize; The Hellenistic World: Using Coins as Sources (Cambridge, 2015); and An Ancient Dream Manual: Artemidorus' The Interpretation of Dreams (2020). He is currently Editor of the Journal of Roman Studies.

Riassunto

This is the first detailed ethnographic analysis of the kinship structure, religious life, culture and ethics of an ancient rural community. It will be essential reading for all historians of the Greco-Roman world, and will also be of interest to anthropologists interested in kinship and pre-modern rural societies.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Peter Thonemann, Peter (University of Oxford) Thonemann
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 28.02.2023
• EAN: 9781009123211
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0912321-1
• Pagine: 396
• Serie: Greek Culture in the Roman Wor; Greek Culture in the Roman World
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Antichità; HISTORY / Ancient / General, Social & cultural history, Rural communities, Ancient World, Social and cultural history, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Archaeology by period / region, Classical Greek & Roman archaeology, Anatolia / Asia Minor