A Companion to Families in the Greek and Roman Worlds (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World)

665 Pages·2011·6.37 MB·English

by  Beryl Rawson

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A COMPANION TO FAMILIES
IN THE GREEK AND ROMAN WORLDS
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BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO THE ANCIENT WORLD
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A COMPANION
TO FAMILIES IN
THE GREEK AND
ROMAN WORLDS
Edited by
Beryl Rawson
A John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Publication
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
A companion to families in the Greek and Roman worlds / edited by Beryl Rawson.
p. cm. – (Blackwell companions to the ancient world)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4051-8767-1 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Families–Rome–History. 2. Families–
Greece–History. 3. Dwellings–Rome–History. 4. Dwellings–Greece–History. 5. Rome–Social life
and customs. 6. Greece–Social life and customs. I. Rawson, Beryl.
HQ511.C66 2011
306.850938–dc22
2010025065
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Contents
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
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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
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Contents vii
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
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Illustrations
Maps
1 The Greek and Roman worlds to the second century CE. xix
2 The first walk: the Roman Forum of 169 BCE; possible routes. 410
3 The second walk: Rome, 211 CE. 418
Figures
1.1 Courtyard of house C118, Karanis, viewed from the southeast. 18
1.2 Plan of houses 2 and 3, Kellis. 21
1.3a Insula from Karanis Area 10–12, F–G, phase C. 25
1.3b Insula from Karanis Area 10–12, F–G, phase B. 26
2.1 Houses A vii 4 and D vi 6, Olynthus. 37
2.2 House of Mosaics, Eretria. 41
2.3 Peristyle house 1, Iaitas. 44
2.4 Insula of the Bronzes, Delos. 47
2.5 House of the Trident, Delos. 48
3.1 Casa del Menandro, Pompeii. 57
3.2 Representation of a boy playing with a dove from the Casa di
Successus, Pompeii. 58
3.3 Casa del Labirinto, Pompeii. 63
3.4 Casa dei Postumii, Pompeii. 67
3.5 The kitchen (22) of the Casa dei Postumii, Pompeii. 69
10.1 Tombstone of Dagvalda, mourned by his wife, Pusinna,
from Cawfields on Hadrian’s Wall. 166
10.2 Map of Germany showing locations of forts in this study. 174
10.3 GIS plot showing distribution of women’s and children’s items
inside the first-century legionary fortress of Vetera I. 175
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