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The Oxford handbook of childhood and education in the classical world /

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-fami...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Grubbs, Judith Evans (Editor ), Parkin, Tim G. (Editor ), Bell, Roslynne
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]
Colección:Oxford Handbooks Ser.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover
  • THE OXFORD HANDBOOK OF CHILDHOOD AND EDUCATION IN THE CLASSICAL WORLD
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contributors
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • PART I GESTATION, BIRTH, DISEASE, AND DEATH
  • 1. Becoming Human: From the Embryo to the Newborn Child
  • 2. The Demography of Infancy and Early Childhood in the Ancient World
  • 3. Babies in the Well: Archeological Evidence for Newborn Disposal in Hellenistic Greece
  • 4. Infant Exposure and Infanticide
  • 5. The Child Patient of the Hippocratics: Early Pediatrics?
  • 6. Raising a Disabled Child
  • PART II CHILDREN AND CHILDHOOD IN ANCIENT GREECE
  • 7. Children in Archaic and Classical Greek Art: A Survey
  • 8. Children as Learners and Producers in Early Greece
  • 9. Shifting Gender: Age and Social Status as Modifiers of Childhood Gender in Ancient Athens
  • 10. Children in Athenian Religion
  • 11. Play, Pathos, and Precocity: The Three P's of Greek Literary Childhood
  • PART III CHILDREN AND CHILDHOOD IN ANCIENT ROME
  • 12. Children in Latin Epic
  • 13. The Socialization of Roman Children
  • 14. Slave and Lower-Class Roman Children
  • 15. Children and Childhood in Roman Commemorative Art
  • 16. Toys, Dolls, and the Material Culture of Childhood
  • 17. Roman Children and the Law
  • PART IV EDUCATION AND EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY IN THE CLASSICAL WORLD
  • 18. Education in Plato's Laws
  • 19. Boys, Girls, Family, and the State at Sparta
  • 20. Engendering the Scroll: Girls' and Women's Literacy in Classical Greece
  • 21. Educating the Youth: The Athenian Ephebeia in the Early Hellenistic Era
  • 22. The Ancient Child in School
  • PART V CHILDREN IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN
  • 23. Children in Ptolemaic Egypt: What the Papyri Say
  • 24. Children in Roman Egypt
  • 25. Adoption and Fosterage in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean
  • 26. Pictorial Paideia : Children in the Synagogue
  • PART VI LATE ANTIQUITY AND EARLY CHRISTIANITY
  • 27. Children and "the Child" in Early Christianity
  • 28. Elite Children, Socialization, and Agency in the Late Roman World
  • 29. Remembering Children in the Roman Catacombs
  • 30. Stages of Infancy in Roman Amphora Burial
  • Envoi
  • Index