ISBN:
019926841X
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xx, 358 p)
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ill., map
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23 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version The Roman Family in the Empire : Rome, Italy, and Beyond
DDC:
306.85/0937
Keywords:
Family Congresses
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Families ; Rome ; Congresses
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Electronic books
Abstract:
This is the first book on Roman family life to include studies of the family in the Roman provinces. Subjects treated include family values, the relationship between parents and children, family tensions, marriage patterns, and family commemorations on tombstones. The authors use a variety of ancient evidence and different methodologies to reach their conclusions about Roman influence on provincial culture. - ;This volume contains a series of articles that examine the Roman family in Italy and the empire using a wide range of evidence and considering a number of critical issues. Its focus on r
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; List of Contributors; List of Figures; Map; List of Tables; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Putting the Family Across: Cicero on Natural Affection; 2. Family Imagery and Family Values in Roman Italy; 3. The Roman Child in Sickness and in Health; 4. Parent-Child Conflict in the Roman Family: The Evidence of the Code of Justinian; 5. Searching for the Romano-Egyptian Family; 6. The Jewish Family in Judaea from Pompey to Hadrian-the Limits of Romanization; 7. Family Relations in Roman Lusitania: Social Change in a Roman Province?; 8. Family History in the Roman North-West
Description / Table of Contents:
9. Family and Kinship in Roman Africa10. Children and Parents on the Tombstones of Pannonia; References; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-353) and index
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"Most papers in this volume were given at the Fourth E.T. Salmon Conference in Roman Studies held at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada, in September 2001"--Pref
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
