Research Catalog

Title

The Oxford handbook of childhood and education in the classical world / edited by Judith Evans Grubbs and Tim Parkin, with the assistance of Roslynne Bell.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Grubbs, Judith Evans
• Parkin, Tim G.
• Bell, Roslynne

Description

xxiii, 690 pages : illustrations; 26 cm.

Summary

The past thirty years have seen an explosion of interest in Greek and Roman social history, particularly studies of women and the family. Until recently these studies did not focus especially on children and childhood, but considered children in the larger context of family continuity and inter-family relationships, or legal issues like legitimacy, adoption and inheritance. Recent publications have examined a variety of aspects related to childhood in ancient Greece and Rome, but until now nothing has attempted to comprehensively survey the state of ancient childhood studies. This handbook does just that, showcasing the work of both established and rising scholars and demonstrating the variety of approaches to the study of childhood in the classical world. In thirty chapters, with a detailed introduction and envoi, The Oxford Handbook of Childhood and Education in the Classical World presents current research in a wide range of topics on ancient childhood, including sub-disciplines of Classics that rarely appear in collections on the family or childhood such as archaeology and ancient medicine. Contributors include some of the foremost experts in the fieldas well as younger, up-and-coming scholars. Unlike most edited volumes on childhood or the family in antiquity, this collection also gives attention to the late antique period and whether (or how) conceptions of childhood and the life of children changed with Christianity. The chronological spread runs from archaic Greece to the later Roman Empire (fifth century C.E.). Geographical areas covered include not only classical Greece and Roman Italy, but also the eastern Mediterranean. The Oxford Handbook of Childhood and Education in the Classical World engages with perennially valuable questions about family and education in the ancient world while providing a much-needed touchstone for research in the field. One of the first collected volumes on ancient families -- Cutting-edge approach to questions of gestation, birth, death, education, and educational philosophy in Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, and the Eastern Mediterranean. -- Publisher.

Series Statement

Oxford handbooks

Uniform Title

Oxford handbooks.

Alternative Title

• Handbook of childhood and education in the classical world
• Childhood and education in the classical world

Subjects

• Greece
• Education
• Education > Rome
• To 1500
• Antike
• Greece > Social conditions > To 146 B.C
• Kind
• Children > Greece > History > To 1500
• Rome (Empire)
• Education, Greek
• Social history
• Education, Ancient
• Rome > Social conditions
• Children > Rome
• History
• Erziehung

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• Series statement from dust jacket.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

PART I. GESTATION, BIRTH, DISEASE, AND DEATH -- Becoming Human: from the Embryo to the Newborn Child / Véronique Dasen, Université de Fribourg -- The Demography of Infancy and Early Childhood in the Ancient World / Tim Parkin, University of Manchester -- Babies in the Well: Archaeological Evidence for Newborn Disposal in Hellenistic Greece / Maria Liston and Susan Rotroff, University of Waterloo/Washington University in St. Louis -- (Not) Bringing up Baby: Infant Exposure and Infanticide / Judith Evans Grubbs, Emory University -- The child patient of the Hippocratics: early Pediatrics? / Lesley Dean-Jones, University of Texas at Austin -- Raising a Disabled Child / Christian Laes, University of Antwerp/Free University of Brussels -- PART II. CHILDREN AND CHILDHOOD IN ANCIENT GREECE -- Children in Archaic and Classical Greek art: A Survey / John Oakley, College of William and Mary -- Children as Learners and Producers in Early Greece / Susan Langdon, University of Missouri at Columbia -- Shifting Gender: Age and Social Status as Modifiers of Childhood Gender in Ancient Athens / Lesley Beaumont, University of Sydney -- Children in Athenian Religion / Robert Garland, Colgate University -- Play, Pathos and Precocity: The Three 'P's of Greek Literary Childhood / Louise Pratt, Emory University -- PART III. CHILDREN AND CHILDHOOD IN ANCIENT ROME -- Children in Latin Epic / Mark Golden, University of Winnipeg -- The Socialization of Roman Children / Janette McWilliam, University of Queensland -- Slave and Lower-class Roman Children / Hanne Sigismund Nielsen, University of Calgary -- Children and Childhood in Roman Commemorative Art / Lena Larsson Lovén, Gøteburg University -- Toys, Dolls and the Material Culture of Childhood / Mary Harlow, University of Birmingham -- Roman Children and the Law / Thomas A.J. McGinn, Vanderbilt University -- PART IV. EDUCATION AND EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY IN THE CLASSICAL WORLD -- Education in Plato's Laws / Cynthia Patterson, Emory University -- Boys, Girls, Family, and the State at Sparta / Nigel Kennell, American School of Classical Studies at Athens -- Engendering the Scroll: Girls' and Women's Literacy in Classical Greece / Matthew Dillon, University of New England -- Educating the Youth: the Athenian ephebeia in the Early Hellenistic Era / Eric Casey, Sweet Briar College -- The Ancient Child in School / Martin Bloomer, University of Notre Dame -- PART V. CHILDREN IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN -- Children in Hellenistic Egypt: What the Papyri Say / Maryline Parca, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign -- Children in Roman Egypt / April Pudsey, Birkbeck College -- Adoption and Fosterage in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean / Sabine Huebner, Max-Planck Institut, Rostock -- Pictorial paideia: Children in the Synagogue / Hagith Sivan, University of Kansas -- PART VI. LATE ANTIQUITY AND EARLY CHRISTIANITY -- Children and 'the Child' in early Christianity / Blake Leyerle, University of Notre Dame -- Elite Children, Socialization and Agency in the Late Roman world / Ville Vuolanto, University of Tampere -- Remembering Children in the Roman Catacombs / Jenny Kreiger, University of Michigan -- Stages of Infancy in Roman Amphora Burial / Susan Stevens, Randolph College -- ENVOI / Keith Bradley, University of Notre Dame.

Call Number

DE61.C4

ISBN

• 9780199781546
• 0199781540
• 0199781605 (electronic bk.)
• 9780199781607 (electronic bk.)

LCCN

2013010633

OCLC

830992833

Title

The Oxford handbook of childhood and education in the classical world / edited by Judith Evans Grubbs and Tim Parkin, with the assistance of Roslynne Bell.

Publisher

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Oxford handbooks

Oxford handbooks.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

To 1500

Added Author

Grubbs, Judith Evans, editor, contributor.

Parkin, Tim G., editor, contributor.

Bell, Roslynne, editor, contributor.

Research Call Number

*R-RMRR DE61.C4 O58 2013