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A Companion to Families in the Greek and Roman Worlds
Beryl Rawson
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Description for A Companion to Families in the Greek and Roman Worlds
Hardback. 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. Editor(s): Rawson, Beryl. Series: Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Num Pages: 664 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 1QDAR; HBJD; HBLA; HBTB; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 252 x 179 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1330.
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
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
664
Condition
New
Series
Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
Number of Pages
672
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781405187671
SKU
V9781405187671
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Ref
99-50
About Beryl Rawson
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 ... Read more
Reviews for A Companion to Families in the Greek and Roman Worlds
"A Companion to Families in the Greek and Roman Worlds is a stimulating and valuable resource for the future of classical scholarship." (Reference Reviews, 2011)