Children in antiquity : perspectives and experiences of childhood in the ancient Mediterranean /: perspectives and experiences of childhood in the ancient Mediterranean. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Lesley A. Beaumont, Matthew Dillon and Nicola Harrington.
• Editors: Beaumont, Lesley A; Dillon, Matthew, 1963-; Harrington, Nicola
• Contents: Introduction: investigating the ancient Mediterranean ‘childscape’ Lesley A. Beaumont, Matthew Dillon and Nicola Harrington PART I: What is a child? 1. The ancient Egyptian conception of children and childhood Nicola Harrington 2. What is a child in Aegean prehistory? Anne P. Chapin 3. Ideological constructions of childhood in Bronze and Early Iron Age Italy: personhood between marginality and social inclusion Elisa Perego 4. Defi ning childhood and youth: a regional approach to Archaic and Classical Greece: the case of Athens and Sparta Lesley A. Beaumont 5. The child in Etruscan Italy Marjatta Nielsen 6. Children and the Hellenistic period Mark Golden 7. Roman childhood revisited Véronique Dasen 8. From birth to rebirth: perceptions of childhood in Greco-Roman Egypt Lissette M. Jiménez 9. Looking for children in Late Antiquity Geoff rey Nathan 10. From village to monastery: fi nding children in the Coptic record from Egypt Jennifer Cromwell PART II: Daily life 11. The child’s experience of daily life in ancient Egypt Amandine Marshall 12. Changing states: daily life of children in Mycenaean and Early Iron Age Greece Susan Langdon 13. Children in early Rome and Latium Sanna Lipkin and Eero Jarva 14. Being a child in Archaic and Classical Greece Robert S.J. Garland 15. The daily life of Etruscan babies and children Larissa Bonfante 16. Being a child in the Hellenistic world: a subject out of proportion? Christian Laes 17. Diff erent lives: children’s daily experiences in the Roman world Fanny Dolansky 18. Children as instruments of policy in Hadrian’s Egypt Myrto Malouta 19. Daily life of children in Late Antiquity: play, work and vulnerability Ville Vuolanto PART III: Religion and ritual 20. “Child in the nest”: children in Pharaonic Egyptian religion and rituals Kasia Szpakowska 21. Children and Aegean Bronze Age religion Ute Günkel- Maschek 22. Initiating children into Italian Bronze and Early Iron Age ritual, religion and cosmology Erik van Rossenberg 23. Children in Archaic and Classical Greek religion: active and passive ritual agency Matthew Dillon 24. Children in Etruscan religion and ritual Jean MacIntosh Turfa 25. Children’s roles in Hellenistic religion Olympia Bobou 26. Children in Roman religion and ritual Janette McWilliam 27. Children, religion and ritual in Greco-Roman Egypt Ada Nifosi 28. The child in Late Antique religion and ritual Béatrice Caseau PART IV: Death 29. Child, infant and foetal burials in the Egyptian archaeological record: exploring cultural capacities from the Predynastic to Middle Kingdom Periods (c. 4400–1650 BC) Ronika K. Power 30. “Do not say ‘I am young to be taken’ ”: children and death in ancient Egypt: Second Intermediate Period to the Late Period Jessica Kaiser 31. Children and death in Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Greece Chrysanthi Gallou 32. Children, death and society in Late Bronze Age and Iron Age Sicily Gillian Shepherd 33. Children and death in Archaic and Classical Greece Vicky Vlachou 34. Infancy and childhood in funerary contexts of Early Iron Age Middle Tyrrhenian Italy: a comparative approach Francesca Fulminante and Simon Stoddart 35. Child death in the Hellenistic world Nikolas Dimakis 36. Death of a Roman child Hugh Lindsay 37. Death of a child: demographic and preparation trends of juvenile burials in the Graeco-Roman Fayoum Kerry Muhlestein and R. Paul Evans 38. Infant mortality, Michael Psellos and the Byzantine demon Gillo Lynda Garland PART V: Bioarchaeology 39. The bioarchaeology of children in Greco-Roman antiquity Kathryn E. Marklein and Sherry C. Fox 40. Infancy and childhood in Roman Egypt: bioarchaeological perspectives Sandra M. Wheeler, Lana Williams and Tosha L. Dupras 41. “The greatest of treasures”: advances in the bioarchaeology of Byzantine children Chryssi Bourbou
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 305.230937; Children -- Mediterranean Region -- History -- To 1500; Children -- Mediterranean Region -- Social conditions; Social archaeology -- Mediterranean Region; Mediterranean Region -- Antiquities
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781134870752; 9781134870684; 9781315542812
• Related ISBNs: 9781138780866
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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