Children, memory, and family identity in roman culture

A collection of essays which draws together the perspectives of various disciplines to provide a multifaceted picture of the Roman family, and of the role of children as transmitters of familial memory, from the 1st century BCE to Late Antiquity and the Christian period. INDICE: Véronique Dasen and Thomas Späth: Introduction; I. Family Identities and Traditions; 1: Catherine Baroin: Ancestors as Models: Memory and theConstruction of Gentilician Identity; 2: Ann-Cathrin Harders: Roman PatchworkFamilies: Surrogate Parenting, Socialization and the Shaping of Tradition; 3:Francesca Prescendi: Children and the Transmission of Religious Knowledge; 4:Michel E. Fuchs: Women and Children in Ancient Landscape; 5: Véronique Dasen:Wax and Plaster Memories: Children in Elite and Non-Elite Strategies; 6: Thomas Späth: Cicero, Tullia, and Marcus: Gender-Specific Concerns for Family Tradition?; 7: Ville Vuolanto: Children and the Memory of Parents in the Late Roman World; II. Children on the Margins?; 8: Beryl Rawson: Degrees of Freedom, Vernae and Junian Latins in the Roman Familia; 9: Francesca Mencacci: Modestia vs licentia: Seneca on Childhood and Status in the Roman Family; 10: Christian Laes: Delicia-Children Revisited: The Evidence of Statius' Silvae; 11: Danielle Gourevitch: The Sick Child in his Family: A Risk for the Family Tradition; 12: Judith Evans Grubbs: Hidden in Plain Sight: Expositi in the Community; 13: Philippe Moreau: Rome: The Invisible Children of Incest

• ISBN: 978-0-19-958257-0
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 392
• Fecha Publicación: 28/10/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés