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Mediterranean families in antiquity : households, extended families, and domestic space
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- Creator
- edited by Sabine R. Huebner and Geoffrey Nathan
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- Chichester, West Sussex, England : Wiley-Blackwell, 2017
- ©2017
- Series
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (371 p.)
- ISBNs
- 9781119143727, 1119143721, 9781119143734, 111914373X, 9781119143703, 1119143705, 1119143691
- OCLC
- ocn948748676
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Access using campus network via VPN at home (THEi Users Only).
- English
- Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Foreword and Acknowledgments -- Part I Introduction -- Chapter 1 A Mediterranean Family? A Comparative Approach to the Ancient World -- The Family in the Mediterranean in Modern Times -- The Family in the Mediterranean in Antiquity -- Conclusions -- References -- Part II The Greek and Hellenistic World -- Chapter 2 Identifying Family Structures in Early Iron Age Crete -- Introduction -- The Evidence from Vronda, Kavousi -- Kinship Structures in Bronze and Early Iron Age Crete -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 3 The Idea of Descent in Early Greek Kinship -- Evidence for Early Iron Age Kinship -- Descent in Early Greek Thinking -- Descent and Kinship Grouping -- Descent and the Creation of Status -- References -- Chapter 4 The Role of the Extended Family in Exacting Blood Revenge in Classical Athens -- Pylades and Orestes -- Vengeance for Kin at Athens -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 Domestic Architecture in Ephesus from the Hellenistic Period to Late Antiquity -- References -- Part III The Roman World -- Chapter 6 Traces of the Unfamiliar: Epigraphic Evidence for Extended Families on the Margins in Roman Italy -- Introduction -- The Vigiles of Ostia and the Transtiberim -- The Palace Slaves of Imperial Rome -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7 Extended Families and Family Substitutes among Migrants in the Roman World -- Delos -- Soldiers at Rome -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8 Household Archaeology in Mediterranean Spain: Family Forms from Iberia to Hispania -- Introduction -- Domestic Architecture and Early Iron Age Societies -- Domestic Architecture and Late Iron Age Societies -- House, Family and Community: The Path Toward Social Division -- References -- Chapter 9 Egypt as Part of the Mediterranean? Domestic Space and Household Structures in Roman Egypt
- The Mediterranean Identity of Egypt -- The Climate and the House -- Evidence in the Papyri -- The Sons of Psemonches: Families in the City of the Childbirth Goddess -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 10 Towards an Archaeology of Household Relationships in Roman Egypt -- Introduction -- Theoretical Background: Households and Houses -- Methodology -- Discussion -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 11 Age Hierarchy and Social Networks among Urban Women in the Roman East -- Early Christian Texts -- Employing Analogies for Women's Worlds -- Older Women in 1 Timothy 5:3-16 -- Acts of Paul and Thecla -- References -- Chapter 12 Family Forms and Conflicts in Roman North Africa -- Introduction -- Roman and Christian North Africa -- Family and Power I: The Family of Nubel, African Power Brokers in between Rome and the Desert -- Family and Power II: Power Struggles in the Vandal Royal House -- Conclusion -- References -- Part IV Late Antiquity -- Chapter 13 Extended Family in the Experiences of Ausonius and Libanius -- Introduction: Setting the Problem -- Test Cases -- The Control Group: Immediate Family -- Paternal and Maternal Uncles and Aunts -- Other Extended Kin -- Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 14 Household and Family Dynamics in Late Antique Southern Gaul -- Introduction -- Interpreting the Sources -- The Protagonists -- The Late Roman Family Ideal in Gaul -- Childcare in Early Years: Parents and Other Relatives -- Education and Educators in Later Childhood Years -- Family and Household: The Role of Servants -- Extended and Multiple Family -- Conclusions -- References -- Part V Outlook in Later Period of the Mediterranean -- Chapter 15 Missing Women in the Italian Middle Ages? Data and Interpretation -- The Missing Females of Italy: Sex Ratio in Medieval Sources -- Hypotheses on the Invisibility of Females in Cemeteries
- Exposure, Oblation, Infanticide by Neglect -- A Meta-analysis of European Cemeteries: Data, Samples, and Results -- The Italian Peculiarity: Some Hypotheses -- Appendix: Death Sex Ratio and Mortality Levels -- References -- Chapter 16 Family Forms in Later Periods of the Mediterranean -- Introduction -- The Search for a Mediterranean Family System in Modern Times -- Mediterranean or Southern Europe? -- In Search of the Ancient Roots of Modern Mediterranean Family Systems -- Conclusions -- References -- Part VI Conclusion -- Chapter 17 Reassessing the Premodern Mediterranean Family -- Household Structures -- Patriarchy, Patrilineality and Patrilocality -- Extended Family -- Future Directions -- References -- Index -- EULA