Table of Contents
List of Illustrations viii
List of Tables xi
Notes on Contributors xii
Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction: Families in the Greek and Roman Worlds 1 Beryl Rawson
Part I Houses and Households 13
1 Family and Household, Ancient History and Archeology: A Case Study from Roman Egypt 15 Lisa Nevett
2 Space and Social Relationships in the Greek Oikos of the Classical and Hellenistic Periods 32 Monika Trümper
3 Space and Social Relations in the Roman West 53 Jens-Arne Dickmann
4 Household Composition in the Ancient Mediterranean – What Do We Really Know? 73 Sabine R. Huebner
5 The Royal Families of Argead Macedon and the Hellenistic World 92 Daniel Ogden
6 Monogamy and Polygyny 108 Walter Scheidel
7 The Roman Family as Productive Unit 116 Richard Saller
8 The Families of Roman Slaves and Freedmen 129 Henrik Mouritsen
9 Foreign Families in Roman Italy 145 David Noy
10 Soldiers’ Families in the Early Roman Empire 161 Penelope Allison
11 The Household as a Venue for Religious Conversion: The Case of Christianity 183 Kate Cooper
12 What We Do and Don’t Know About Early Christian Families 198 Carolyn Osiek
Part II Kinship, Marriage, Parents, And Children 215
13 Consubstantiality, Incest, and Kinship in Ancient Greece 217 Jérôme Wilgaux
14 Marriage in Ancient Athens 231 Cheryl A. Cox
15 From Ceremonial to Sexualities: A Survey of Scholarship on Roman Marriage 245 Suzanne Dixon
16 Other People’s Children 262 Mark Golden
17 The Roman Life Course and the Family 276 Tim Parkin
18 Childbirth and Infancy in Greek and Roman Antiquity 291 Véronique Dasen
19 Grieving for Lost Children, Pagan and Christian 315 Christian Laes
Part III the Legal Side 331
20 Greek Law and the Family 333 Eva Cantarella
21 Adoption and Heirship in Greece and Rome 346 Hugh Lindsay
22 Roman “Horror” of Intestacy? 361 Jane F. Gardner
23 Promoting pietas through Roman Law 377 Judith Evans Grubbs
Part IV City and Country 393
24 Greek Cities and Families 395 Sara Saba
25 A Walk with the Dead: A Funerary Cityscape of Ancient Rome 408 Christopher Johanson
26 The Family and the Roman Countryside 431 Stephen L. Dyson
Part V Ritual, Commemoration, Values 445
27 Families and Religion in Classical Greece 447 Janett E. Morgan
28 Picturing Greek Families 465 Ada Cohen
29 Celebrating the Saturnalia: Religious Ritual and Roman Domestic Life 488 Fanny Dolansky
30 Ethos: The Socialization of Children in Education and Beyond 504 Teresa Morgan
31 Picturing the Roman Family 521 Janet Huskinson
32 Devotional Visuality in Family Funerary Monuments in the Roman World 542 Janet H. Tulloch
Glossary 564
References 567
Index 624
