1st Edition
Adults and Children in the Roman Empire (Routledge Revivals)
By Thomas Wiedemann
Copyright 1989
248 Pages
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Routledge
246 Pages
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Routledge
246 Pages
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Routledge
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There is little evidence to enable us to reconstruct what it felt like to be a child in the Roman world. We do, however, have ample evidence about the feelings and expectations that adults had for children over the centuries between the end of the Roman republic and late antiquity.
Thomas Wiedemann draws on this evidence to describe a range of attitudes towards children in the classical period,... Read more
List of illustrations; List of abbreviations; Introduction 1. The Child in the Classical City 2. Imperial Children in Biography and Panegyric 3. The Evidence of Pagan and Christian letters. 4. Citizenship and Office Holding 5. Learning for Adult Life 6. Equal in the Sight of God; Bibliography; Index
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Wiedemann, Thomas
