The family in the Greco-Roman world
Ray Laurence & Agneta Stromberg
This title offers new approaches to the study of the family in antiquity. The family has been recognised in the ancient world as the key social institution on which both society and the state are based. However, in the pre-Classical and Classical world the family was constructed in dissimilar ways and provides the means to explaining why the civilizations of the ancient Mediterranean, although sharing many cultural features, in fact differed greatly. This volume draws on the most recent work of leading scholars in the field with the aim of establishing a new understanding of the ancient family for the 21st century. In so doing, this book includes new approaches to social institutions, depictions of women and children, the Seleucid dynasty as a negative model of family, the inclusion of Etruscan societies, and a fundamental re-assessment of the family in antiquity
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Godina:
2011
Izdavač:
Bloomsbury Academic;Continuum
Jezik:
english
ISBN 10:
1441139273
ISBN 13:
9781441139276
Serije:
Family in Antiquity, The
Fajl:
EPUB, 4.36 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2011