A Companion to Families in the Greek and Roman Worlds

1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-119-26683-9
Verlag: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 664 Seiten, Format (B × H): 171 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 381 g

Reihe: Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World

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

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rawson, Beryl

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike

Über Autor(innen)

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).