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Growing up fatherless in antiquity /
This title investigates the effects of fatherlessness on the societies, cultures, politics and families of the ancient Mediterranean world.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction. Fatherless antiquity? Perspectives on "fatherlessness" in the ancient Mediterranean / Sabine R. Hübner and David M. Ratzan
- pt. 1. Coping with demographic realities. The demographic background / Walter Scheidel
- Oedipal complexes / Mark Golden
- Callirhoe's dilemma: remarriage and stepfathers in the Greco-Roman East / Sabine R. Hübner
- "Without father, without mother, without genealogy": fatherlessness in the Old and New Testaments / Marcus Sigismund
- pt. 2. Virtual fatherlessness. Bastardy and fatherlessness in ancient Greece / Daniel Ogden
- Fatherlessness and formal identification in Roman Egypt / Myrto Malouta
- pt. 3. Roles without models. Diomedes, the fatherless hero of the Iliad / Louise Pratt
- Sons (and daughters) without father: fatherlessness in the Homeric epics / Georg Wöhrle
- Absent Roman fathers in the writings of their daughters: Cornelia and Sulpicia / Judith P. Hallett
- pt. 4. Rhetoric of loss. The disadvantages and advantages of being fatherless: the case of Sulla / Sabine Müller
- An imperial family man: Augustus as surrogate father to Marcus Antonius' children / Ann-Cathrin Harders
- Cui parens non erat maximus quisque et vetustissimus pro parente: paternal surrogates in imperial Roman literature / Neil W. bernstein
- The education of orphans: a reassessment of the evidence of Libanius / Raffaella Cribiore
- "Woe to those making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless": Christian ideals and the obligations of stepfathers in late antiquity / Geoffrey Nathan.