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1 online resource (xxiii, 690 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Oxford Handbooks Ser.
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Oxford Handbooks Ser.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
The past thirty years have seen an explosion of interest in Greek and Roman social history, particularly studies of women and the family. Until recently these studies did not focus especially on children and childhood, but considered children in the larger context of family continuity and inter-family relationships, or legal issues like legitimacy, adoption and inheritance. Recent publications have examined a variety of aspects related to childhood in ancient Greece and Rome, but until now nothing has attempted to comprehensively survey the state of ancient childhood studies. This handbook does just that, showcasing the work of both established and rising scholars and demonstrating the variety of approaches to the study of childhood in the classical world. In thirty chapters, with a detailed introduction and envoi, The Oxford Handbook of Childhood and Education in the Classical World presents current research in a wide range of topics on ancient childhood, including sub-disciplines of Classics that rarely appear in collections on the family or childhood such as archaeology and ancient medicine. Contributors include some of the foremost experts in the field as well as younger, up-and-coming scholars. Unlike most edited volumes on childhood or the family in antiquity, this collection also gives attention to the late antique period and whether (or how) conceptions of childhood and the life of children changed with Christianity. The chronological spread runs from archaic Greece to the later Roman Empire (fifth century C.E.). Geographical areas covered include not only classical Greece and Roman Italy, but also the eastern Mediterranean. The Oxford Handbook of Childhood and Education in the Classical World engages with perennially valuable questions about family and education in the ancient world while providing a much-needed touchstone for research in the field. |
| Contents |
Cover -- THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF CHILDHOOD AND EDUCATION IN THE CLASSICAL WORLD -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART I GESTATION, BIRTH, DISEASE, AND DEATH -- 1. Becoming Human: From the Embryo to the Newborn Child -- 2. The Demography of Infancy and Early Childhood in the Ancient World -- 3. Babies in the Well: Archeological Evidence for Newborn Disposal in Hellenistic Greece -- 4. Infant Exposure and Infanticide -- 5. The Child Patient of the Hippocratics: Early Pediatrics? |
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6. Raising a Disabled Child -- PART II CHILDREN AND CHILDHOOD IN ANCIENT GREECE -- 7. Children in Archaic and Classical Greek Art: A Survey -- 8. Children as Learners and Producers in Early Greece -- 9. Shifting Gender: Age and Social Status as Modifiers of Childhood Gender in Ancient Athens -- 10. Children in Athenian Religion -- 11. Play, Pathos, and Precocity: The Three P's of Greek Literary Childhood -- PART III CHILDREN AND CHILDHOOD IN ANCIENT ROME -- 12. Children in Latin Epic -- 13. The Socialization of Roman Children -- 14. Slave and Lower-Class Roman Children |
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15. Children and Childhood in Roman Commemorative Art -- 16. Toys, Dolls, and the Material Culture of Childhood -- 17. Roman Children and the Law -- PART IV EDUCATION AND EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY IN THE CLASSICAL WORLD -- 18. Education in Plato's Laws -- 19. Boys, Girls, Family, and the State at Sparta -- 20. Engendering the Scroll: Girls' and Women's Literacy in Classical Greece -- 21. Educating the Youth: The Athenian Ephebeia in the Early Hellenistic Era -- 22. The Ancient Child in School -- PART V CHILDREN IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN -- 23. Children in Ptolemaic Egypt: What the Papyri Say |
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24. Children in Roman Egypt -- 25. Adoption and Fosterage in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean -- 26. Pictorial Paideia : Children in the Synagogue -- PART VI LATE ANTIQUITY AND EARLY CHRISTIANITY -- 27. Children and "the Child" in Early Christianity -- 28. Elite Children, Socialization, and Agency in the Late Roman World -- 29. Remembering Children in the Roman Catacombs -- 30. Stages of Infancy in Roman Amphora Burial -- Envoi -- Index |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Children -- Rome.
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Children -- Greece -- History -- To 1500.
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Children. |
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Greece. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
To 1500 |
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Education, Ancient.
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Education, Ancient. |
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Education, Greek.
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Education -- Rome.
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Rome -- Social conditions.
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Rome (Empire) |
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Education, Greek. |
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Greece -- Social conditions -- To 146 B.C.
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| Chronological Term |
To 146 B.C |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. |
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Social conditions. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. |
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Education. |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Subject |
Children. |
| Added Author |
Grubbs, Judith Evans, editor.
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Parkin, Tim G., editor.
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Bell, Roslynne.
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| Added Title |
Handbook of childhood and education in the classical world |
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Childhood and education in the classical world |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Oxford handbook of childhood and education in the classical world 9780199781546 (DLC) 2013010633 (OCoLC)830992833 |
| ISBN |
9780199781607 (electronic book) |
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0199781605 (electronic book) |
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9781306081917 (ebook) |
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1306081912 (ebook) |
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9780199983308 (eISBN) |
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0199983305 (eISBN) |
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9780199781546 (print) |
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0199781540 (print) |
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