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Record Nr.

UNINA9910795717703321

Titolo

The Roman family in the empire [[electronic resource] ] : Rome, Italy, and beyond / / edited by Michele George

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005

ISBN

0191514950

9780191514951

Descrizione fisica

xx, 358 p. : ill., map

Altri autori (Persone)

GeorgeMichele

Disciplina

306.85/0937

Soggetti

Families - Rome

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Most papers in this volume were given at the Fourth E.T. Salmon Conference in Roman Studies held at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada, in September 2001"--Pref.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-353) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Putting the family across : Cicero on natural affection / Susan Treggiari -- Family imagery and family values in Roman Italy / Michele George -- The Roman child in sickness and in health / Keith Bradley -- Parent-child conflict in the Roman family : the evidence of the Code of Justinian / Judith Evans Grubbs -- Searching for the Romano-Egyptian family / Richard Alston -- The Jewish family in Judaea from Pompey to Hadrian--the limits of romanization / Margaret Williams -- Family relations in Roman Lusitania : social change in a Roman province? / Jonathan Edmondson -- Family history in the Roman north-west / Greg Woolf -- Family and kinship in Roman Africa / Mireille Corbier -- Children and parents on the tombstones of Pannonia / Mary T. Boatwright.