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Childhood, class and kin in the Roman world / edited by Suzanne Dixon.

Contributor(s): Dixon, Suzanne
Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Routledge, 2014Copyright date: ©2001Description: xvi, 282 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780415692533; 0415692539Subject(s): Children -- Rome -- Social conditions | Families -- Rome | Social classes -- Rome | Kinship -- Rome | Children -- History | Rome -- Social conditions | Rome -- Social life and customsLOC classification: HQ767.87 | .C477 2014Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
The 'other' Romans and their family values -- part 1. Childhood. Children as cultural symbols: imperial ideology in the second century / Beryl Rawson ; Children and dreams / Keith Bradley ; Child exposure and abandonment / Mireille Corbier ; Children among the dead: the influence of urban life on the commemoration of children on tombstone inscriptions / Janette McWilliam -- part 2. Class and status. Reconstructing lower-class Roman families / Paul Weaver ; Familia Veturia: towards a lower-class economic prosopography / Suzanne Dixon ; Emperors and houses in Rome / Andrew Wallace-Hadrill ; Women, burial data and issues of inclusion: the problems and potential of Romano-British cemeteries -- part 3. Kin. The value of epithets in pagan and Christian epitaphs from Rome / Hanne Sigismund Nielsen ; A Roman funerary monument with a mother and daughter / Michele George ; Adoption and its function in cross-cultural contexts / Hugh Lindsay ; Nearest and dearest: liability to inheritance tax in Roman families / Jane Gardner ; On becoming a parent in later life: from Augustus to Antonio Agustín via St Augustine / Tim Parkin.
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Originally published: 2001.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The 'other' Romans and their family values -- part 1. Childhood. Children as cultural symbols: imperial ideology in the second century / Beryl Rawson ; Children and dreams / Keith Bradley ; Child exposure and abandonment / Mireille Corbier ; Children among the dead: the influence of urban life on the commemoration of children on tombstone inscriptions / Janette McWilliam -- part 2. Class and status. Reconstructing lower-class Roman families / Paul Weaver ; Familia Veturia: towards a lower-class economic prosopography / Suzanne Dixon ; Emperors and houses in Rome / Andrew Wallace-Hadrill ; Women, burial data and issues of inclusion: the problems and potential of Romano-British cemeteries -- part 3. Kin. The value of epithets in pagan and Christian epitaphs from Rome / Hanne Sigismund Nielsen ; A Roman funerary monument with a mother and daughter / Michele George ; Adoption and its function in cross-cultural contexts / Hugh Lindsay ; Nearest and dearest: liability to inheritance tax in Roman families / Jane Gardner ; On becoming a parent in later life: from Augustus to Antonio Agustín via St Augustine / Tim Parkin.

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