Book description
A Companion to Families in the Greek and Roman Worlds
draws from both established and current scholarship to offer a broad
overview of the field, engage in contemporary debates, and pose
stimulating questions about future development in the study of families.
- Provides up-to-date research on family structure from archaeology,
art, social, cultural, and economic history
- Includes contributions from established and rising international
scholars
- Features illustrations of families, children, slaves, and ritual
life, along with maps and diagrams of sites and dwellings
- Honorable Mention for 2011 Single Volume Reference/Humanities
& Social Sciences PROSE award granted by the Association of
American Publishers
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).
