Adults and Children in the Roman Empire (Routledge Revivals) Routledge Revivals Series
Auteur : Wiedemann Thomas
There is little evidence to enable us to reconstruct what it felt like to be a child in the Roman world. We do, however, have ample evidence about the feelings and expectations that adults had for children over the centuries between the end of the Roman republic and late antiquity.
Thomas Wiedemann draws on this evidence to describe a range of attitudes towards children in the classical period, identifying three areas where greater individuality was assigned to children: through political office-holding; through education; and, for Christians, through membership of the Church in baptism. These developments in both pagan and Christian practices reflect wider social changes in the Roman world during the first four centuries of the Christian era.
Of obvious value to classicists, Adults and Children in the Roman Empire, first published in 1989, is also indispensable for anthropologists, and well as those interested in ecclesiastical and social history.
List of illustrations; List of abbreviations; Introduction 1. The Child in the Classical City 2. Imperial Children in Biography and Panegyric 3. The Evidence of Pagan and Christian letters. 4. Citizenship and Office Holding 5. Learning for Adult Life 6. Equal in the Sight of God; Bibliography; Index
Date de parution : 11-2013
13.8x21.6 cm
Date de parution : 06-2015
13.8x21.6 cm
Thème d’Adults and Children in the Roman Empire (Routledge Revivals) :
Mots-clés :
Young Man; toga; Toga Virilis; virilis; Marcus Aurelius; septimius; Secular Games; severus; Adult Toga; cassius; Face To Face; dio; Adult Life; pater; Corellia Hispulla; patriae; Marcus Annius Verus; late; Princeps Iuventutis; antiquity; Christian Late Antiquity; Augustan History; Toga Pura; Adult Male Citizen; Propertied Englishmen; Fronto’s Letters; BG; Lusus Troiae; Pliny’s Panegyric; Laudes Regiae; Shiny Stones; Divine World; Flamen Dialis; Domine Frater; Daughter Tullia