| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 333 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-325) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction. Fatherless antiquity? Perspectives on "fatherlessness" in the ancient Mediterranean / Sabine R. Hübner and David M. Ratzan -- pt. 1. Coping with demographic realities. The demographic background / Walter Scheidel -- Oedipal complexes / Mark Golden -- Callirhoe's dilemma: remarriage and stepfathers in the Greco-Roman East / Sabine R. Hübner -- "Without father, without mother, without genealogy": fatherlessness in the Old and New Testaments / Marcus Sigismund -- pt. 2. Virtual fatherlessness. Bastardy and fatherlessness in ancient Greece / Daniel Ogden -- Fatherlessness and formal identification in Roman Egypt / Myrto Malouta -- pt. 3. Roles without models. Diomedes, the fatherless hero of the Iliad / Louise Pratt -- Sons (and daughters) without father: fatherlessness in the Homeric epics / Georg Wöhrle -- Absent Roman fathers in the writings of their daughters: Cornelia and Sulpicia / Judith P. Hallett -- pt. 4. Rhetoric of loss. The disadvantages and advantages of being fatherless: the case of Sulla / Sabine Müller -- An imperial family man: Augustus as surrogate father to Marcus Antonius' children / Ann-Cathrin Harders -- Cui parens non erat maximus quisque et vetustissimus pro parente: paternal surrogates in imperial Roman literature / Neil W. bernstein -- The education of orphans: a reassessment of the evidence of Libanius / Raffaella Cribiore -- "Woe to those making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless": Christian ideals and the obligations of stepfathers in late antiquity / Geoffrey Nathan. |
| Summary |
This title investigates the effects of fatherlessness on the societies, cultures, politics and families of the ancient Mediterranean world. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Fatherless families -- History -- To 1500.
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Fatherless families. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
To 1500 |
| Subject |
Civilization, Ancient -- Social aspects.
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Civilization, Ancient. |
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Social aspects. |
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Civilization, Greco-Roman -- Social aspects.
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Civilization, Greco-Roman. |
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Fathers in literature.
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Fathers in literature. |
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Mediterranean Region. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Huebner, Sabine R., 1976-
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Ratzan, David M.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Growing up fatherless in antiquity. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009 9780521490504 (DLC) 2009284686 (OCoLC)261177536 |
| ISBN |
9780511508226 (electronic book) |
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0511508220 (electronic book) |
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9780521490504 (hardback) |
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0521490502 (hardback) |
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9780511504433 (ebook) |
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0511504438 (ebook) |
| Standard No. |
9786612058349 |
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