A Companion to Families in the Greek and Roman Worlds (eBook)

Beryl Rawson is Professor Emerita and Adjunct Professor in Classics at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. She is the author of The Politics of Friendship: Pompey and Cicero (1978) and Children and Childhood in Roman Italy (2003), and the editor of The Family in Ancient Rome: New Perspectives (1986), Marriage, Divorce and Children in Ancient Rome (1991), and The Roman Family in Italy (with Paul Weaver, 1997).

List of Illustrations viii

List of Tables xi

Notes on Contributors xii

Acknowledgments xvii

Introduction: Families in the Greek and Roman Worlds 1

Beryl Rawson

PART I HOUSES AND HOUSEHOLDS 13

1 Family and Household, Ancient History and Archeology: A Case
Study from Roman Egypt 15

Lisa Nevett

2 Space and Social Relationships in the Greek Oikos of the
Classical and Hellenistic Periods 32

Monika Trümper

3 Space and Social Relations in the Roman West 53

Jens-Arne Dickmann

4 Household Composition in the Ancient Mediterranean -
What Do We Really Know? 73

Sabine R. Huebner

5 The Royal Families of Argead Macedon and the Hellenistic World
92

Daniel Ogden

6 Monogamy and Polygyny 108

Walter Scheidel

7 The Roman Family as Productive Unit 116

Richard Saller

8 The Families of Roman Slaves and Freedmen 129

Henrik Mouritsen

9 Foreign Families in Roman Italy 145

David Noy

10 Soldiers' Families in the Early Roman Empire 161

Penelope Allison

11 The Household as a Venue for Religious Conversion: The Case
of Christianity 183

Kate Cooper

12 What We Do and Don't Know About Early Christian
Families 198

Carolyn Osiek

PART II KINSHIP, MARRIAGE, PARENTS, AND CHILDREN 215

13 Consubstantiality, Incest, and Kinship in Ancient Greece
217

Jérôme Wilgaux

14 Marriage in Ancient Athens 231

Cheryl A. Cox

15 From Ceremonial to Sexualities: A Survey of Scholarship on
Roman Marriage 245

Suzanne Dixon

16 Other People's Children 262

Mark Golden

17 The Roman Life Course and the Family 276

Tim Parkin

18 Childbirth and Infancy in Greek and Roman Antiquity 291

Véronique Dasen

19 Grieving for Lost Children, Pagan and Christian 315

Christian Laes

PART III THE LEGAL SIDE 331

20 Greek Law and the Family 333

Eva Cantarella

21 Adoption and Heirship in Greece and Rome 346

Hugh Lindsay

22 Roman "Horror" of Intestacy? 361

Jane F. Gardner

23 Promoting pietas through Roman Law 377

Judith Evans Grubbs

PART IV CITY AND COUNTRY 393

24 Greek Cities and Families 395

Sara Saba

25 A Walk with the Dead: A Funerary Cityscape of Ancient Rome
408

Christopher Johanson

26 The Family and the Roman Countryside 431

Stephen L. Dyson

PART V RITUAL, COMMEMORATION, VALUES 445

27 Families and Religion in Classical Greece 447

Janett E. Morgan

28 Picturing Greek Families 465

Ada Cohen

29 Celebrating the Saturnalia: Religious Ritual and Roman
Domestic Life 488

Fanny Dolansky

30 Ethos: The Socialization of Children in Education and Beyond
504

Teresa Morgan

31 Picturing the Roman Family 521

Janet Huskinson

32 Devotional Visuality in Family Funerary Monuments in the
Roman World 542

Janet H. Tulloch

Glossary 564

References 567

Index 624

"A Companion to Families in the Greek and Roman Worlds is
a stimulating and valuable resource for the future of classical
scholarship." (Reference Reviews, 2011)