Families in Classical and Hellenistic Greece Representations and Realities

by Pomeroy, Sarah B.

• ISBN13: 9780198152606
• ISBN10: 0198152604
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-01-14
• Publisher: Clarendon Press

Summary

This highly original and authoritative account of the Greek family supersedes the only existing study in English by W. K. Lacey (published in 1968) and provides the first comprehensive survey of the subject. Taking account of a mass of literary, inscriptional, archaeological, anthropological, and art-historical evidence, some of which has only been made recently available, Sarah Pomeroy provides an excellent reference for one of the key aspects of Greek social history.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. v
List of Figures	p. viii
Abbreviations	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Defining the Family	p. 17
Heredity and Personal Identity	p. 67
Death and the Family	p. 100
Some Greek Families at Work	p. 141
Two Case Histories	p. 161
Families in Ptolemaic Egypt	p. 193
Bibliography	p. 230
Index	p. 247
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