Children, memory, and family identity in Roman culture / edited by Véronique Dasen and Thomas Späth

Additional Titles: Children, memory, & family identity in Roman culture
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Physical Description: xvi, 373 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Additional Creators: Dasen, Véronique, Späth, Thomas, 1956-, and Roman Family Conference (5th : 2007 : Fribourg, Switzerland)

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Introduction / Véronique Dasen and Thomas Späth -- Remembering one's ancestors, following in their footsteps, being like them : the role and forms of family memory in the building of identity / Catherine Baroin -- Roman patchwork families : surrogate parenting, socialization, and the shaping of tradition / Ann-Cathrin Harders -- Children and the transmission of religious knowledge / Francesca Prescendi -- Women and children in ancient landscape / Michel E. Fuchs -- Wax and plaster memories : children in elite and non-elite strategies / Véronique Dasen -- Cicero, Tullia, and Marcus : gender-specific concerns for family tradition? / Thomas Späth -- Children and the memory of parents in the late Roman world / Ville Vuolanto -- Degrees of freedom : vernae and Junian Latins in the Roman familia / Beryl Rawson -- Modestia vs. licentia : Seneca on childhood and status in the Roman family / Francesca Mencacci -- Delicia-children revisited : the evidence of Statius' Silvae / Christian Laes -- The sick child in his family : a risk for the family tradition / Danielle Gourevitch -- Hidden in plain sight : expositi in the community / Judith Evans Grubbs -- Rome : the invisible children of incest / Philippe Moreau.

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9780199582570 (hbk.)
0199582572 (hbk.)

Note

Selected papers from the 5th Roman Family Conference, entitled Secret families, family secrets, held in Fribourg, Switzerland June 2007.

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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