Screen LibraryChildren in antiquity : perspectives and experiences of childhood in the ancient Mediterranean /
"This collection employs a multi-disciplinary approach treating ancient childhood in a holistic manner according to diachronic, regional and thematic perspectives. This multi-disciplinary approach encompasses Classical Studies, Egyptology, ancient history and the broad spectrum of archaeology,...
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Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
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| Publisher Address: | Abingdon, Oxon : |
| Publication Dates: | 2021. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Rewriting Antiquity
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| Summary: |
"This collection employs a multi-disciplinary approach treating ancient childhood in a holistic manner according to diachronic, regional and thematic perspectives. This multi-disciplinary approach encompasses Classical Studies, Egyptology, ancient history and the broad spectrum of archaeology, including iconography and forensic science. With a chronological range of the Bronze Age to Byzantium and regional coverage of Egypt, Greece, and Italy this is the largest survey of childhood yet undertaken for the ancient world. Within this chronological and regional framework both the social construction of childhood and the child's life experience are explored through the key topics of the definition of childhood, daily life, religion and ritual, death, and the information provided by bioarchaeology. No other volume to date provides such a comprehensive, systematic and cross-cultural study of childhood in the ancient Mediterranean world. In particular, its focus on the identification of society-specific definitions of childhood and the incorporation of the bioarchaeological perspective makes this work a unique and innovative study. Children in Antiquity provides an invaluable and unrivalled resource for anyone working on all aspects of the lives and deaths of children in the ancient Mediterranean world"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xxxv, 619 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780367619992 9781138780866 1138780863 |
| Index Number: | DE61 |
| CLC: | C913.5 |
| Call Number: | C913.5/C536-33 |
| Contents: |
Investigating the ancient Mediterranean 'childscape' / The ancient Egyptian conception of children and childhood / What is a child in Aegean prehistory? / Ideological constructions of childhood in Bronze and Early Iron Age Italy : personhood between marginality and social inclusion / Defining childhood and youth. A regional approach to Archaic and Classical Greece : the case of Athens and Sparta / The child in Etruscan Italy / Children and the Hellenistic period / Roman childhood revisited / From birth to rebirth : perceptions of childhood in Greco-Roman Egypt / Looking for children in Late Antiquity / From village to monastery : finding children in the Coptic record from Egypt / The child's experience of daily life in ancient Egypt / Changing states : daily life of children in Mycenaean and Early Iron Age Greece / Children in early Rome and Latium / Being a child in Archaic and Classical Greece / The daily life of Etruscan babies and children / Being a child in the Hellenistic world. A subject out of proportion? / Different lives : children's daily experiences in the Roman world / Children as instruments of policy in Hadrian's Egypt / Daily life of children in Late Antiquity -- play, work and vulnerability / "Child in the nest" : children in Pharaonic Egyptian religion and rituals / Children and Aegean Bronze Age religion / Initiating children into Italian Bronze and Early Iron Age ritual, religion and cosmology / Children in Archaic and Classical Greek religion : Active and passive ritual agency / Children in Etruscan religion and ritual / Children's roles in Hellenistic religion / Children in Roman religion and ritual / Children, religion and ritual in Greco-Roman Egypt / The child in Late Antique religion and ritual / Child, infant and foetal burials in the Egyptian archaeological record : exploring cultural capacities from the Predynastic to Middle Kingdom Periods (ca.4400-1650 BC) / "Do not say 'I am young to be taken'" : children and death in ancient Egypt -- Second Intermediate Period to the Late Period / Children and death in Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Greece / Children, death and society in Late Bronze Age and Iron Age Sicily / Children and death in Archaic and Classical Greece / Infancy and childhood in funerary contexts of Early Iron Age Middle Tyrrhenian Italy : a comparative approach / Child death in the Hellenistic world / Death of a Roman child / Death of a child : demographic and preparation trends of juvenile burials in the Graeco-Roman Fayoum / Infant mortality, Michael Psellos, and the Byzantine demon Gillo / The bioarchaeology of children in Greco-Roman antiquity / Infancy and childhood in Roman Egypt : bioarchaeological perspectives / "The greatest of treasures" : advances in the bioarchaeology of Byzantine children / |