ISBN:
9780521490504
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0521490502
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
XVI, 333 S.
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graph. Darst.
Ausgabe:
1. publ.
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. [S.l.] Ebrary 2009 Online-Ressource ebrary online Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Paralleltitel:
Druckausg. Growing up fatherless in antiquity
Paralleltitel:
Print version Growing Up Fatherless in Antiquity
DDC:
306.85093
Schlagwort(e):
Fatherless families History To 1500
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Fathers in literature
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Civilization, Ancient Social aspects
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Civilization, Greco-Roman Social aspects
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Griechenland
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Römisches Reich
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Waisenkind
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Electronic books
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Griechenland
;
Römisches Reich
;
Waisenkind
Kurzfassung:
Investigates the effects of fatherlessness on the societies, cultures, politics and families of the ancient Mediterranean world
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Note on abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter 1 Fatherless antiquity? Perspectives on "fatherlessness" in the ancient Mediterranean; Part I Coping with demographic realities; Chapter 2 The demographic background; Chapter 3 Oedipal complexities; Chapter 4 Callirhoe's dilemma: remarriage and stepfathers in the Greco-Roman East; Chapter 5 "Without father, without mother, without genealogy": fatherlessness in the Old and New Testaments; Part II Virtual fatherlessness
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Chapter 6 Bastardy and fatherlessness in ancient GreeceChapter 7 Fatherlessness and formal identification in Roman Egypt; Part III Roles without models; Chapter 8 Diomedes, the fatherless hero of the Iliad; Chapter 9 Sons (and daughters) without fathers: fatherlessness in the Homeric epics; Chapter 10 Absent Roman fathers in the writings of their daughters: Cornelia and Sulpicia; Part IV Rhetoric of loss; Chapter 11 The disadvantages and advantages of being fatherless: the case of Sulla; Chapter 12 An imperial family man: Augustus as surrogate father to Marcus Antonius' children
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Chapter 13 Cui parens non erat maximus quisque et vetustissimus pro parente: paternal surrogates in imperial Roman literatureChapter 14 The education of orphans: a reassessment of the evidence of Libanius; Chapter 15 "Woe to those making widows their prey and robbing.the fatherless": Christian ideals and the obligations of stepfathers in late antiquity; Bibliography; Index
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-325) and index
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