The Roman Family in the Empire: Rome, Italy, and Beyond

by Michele George (Editor)

Overview

This volume contains a series of articles that examine the Roman family in Italy and the empire using a wide range of evidence and considering a number of critical issues. Its focus on regional differences in family structure, forms of marriage, and kinship patterns make it the first publication to include targeted study of the family in the Roman provinces. The chapters cover Roman Egypt, Judaea, Spain, Gaul, North Africa, and Pannonia, and make use of both conventional textual sources and epigraphic evidence and material that is less frequently treated, including the medical writers and the Justinianic receipts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780191514951
Publisher:	OUP Oxford
Publication date:	03/03/2005
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Michele George is Associate Professor of Classics, McMaster University.

Table of Contents

Introduction, Michele George1. Putting the family across: Cicero on natural affection, Susan Treggiari2. Family imagery and family values in Roman Italy, Michele George3. The Roman child in sickness and health, Keith Bradley4. Parent-child conflict in the Roman family: the evidence of Justinian, Judith Evans Grubbs5. Searching for the Romano-Egyptian family, Richard Alston6. The Jewish family in Judaea from Pompey to Hadrian - the limits of Romanization, Margaret Williams7. Family relations in Roman Lusitania: social change in a Roman province?, Jonathan Edmondson8. Family history in the Roman North-West, Greg Woolf9. Family and kinship in Roman Africa, Mireille Corbier10. Children and parents on the tombstones of Pannonia, Mary T. Boatwright