1st Edition
Married Life in Greco-Roman Antiquity
1 Life Within an Ancient Knot: The Extraordinary within the Confines of the Ordinary
Claude-Emmanuelle Centlivres Challet
2 Mind the Gap: Evidence (?) for Non-Elite Couples in the Hellenistic Period
Bonnie Maclachlan
3 From Ideal to Reality: Married Couples on Hellenistic Inscribed Grave Epigrams
Charlotte Golay
4 Vilicus and Vilica in the De Agri Cultura: The Elder Cato’s Script for a Farming Couple
Judith P. Hallett
5 Literary Models and Social Challenges: Marital Love According to Ovid in the Tristia and Epistulae Ex Ponto
Jacqueline Fabre-Serris
6 For Better or for Worse: Conjugal Relationships of Writers and Intellectuals under the Challenges of the Empire
Ida Gilda Mastrorosa
7 Worth Her Weight: Worthy Women, Coupling, and Eating in Petronius’ Satyrica
Karen E. Klaiber Hersch
8 Reading Plutarch’s Marriage Precepts
David Konstan
9 Looking Ordinary: Ideals and Ideologies in the Iconography of Married Couples in Roman Society
Mary Harlow and Lena Larsson Lovén
10 Material Aspects of Marriage: Economic Transactions between Spouses in Roman Egypt
Marianna Thoma
11 ‘For I Have No Other Sun But You’: Emotions and Married Life in Greek Papyri
Maryline Parca
Biography
Claude-Emmanuelle Centlivres Challet is Scientific Collaborator at the Institut d’Archéologie et des Sciences de l’Antiquité at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Her research interests and publications include genders and couple relationships (Like Man, Like Woman: Roman Women, Gender Qualities and Conjugal Relationships at the Turn of the First Century, 2013), family, sexuality, breastfeeding, breast pumps, infant feeding, Pliny the Younger, and Juvenal. Her next book explores gender pressure in Roman times.
"This is a strong contribution to the topic of marriage in the antique Mediterranean world and each essay has considerable merit." - Bryn Mawr Classical Review
