Growing Up and Growing Old in Ancient Rome: A Life Course Approach

by Harlow,Mary

• ISBN13: 9780415202015
• ISBN10: 0415202019
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2001-12-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Throughout history, every culture has had its own ideas on what growing up and growing old. This volume is the first to highlight the role of age in determining behaviour, and expectations of behaviour, across the life span of an inhabitant of ancient Rome. Drawing on developments in the social sciences, as well as ancient evidence, the authors focus on the period c.200BC - AD200, looking at childhood, the transition to adulthood, maturity, and old age. They explore how both the individual and society were involved in, and reacted to, these different stages.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	vi
Preface	vii
Introduction: ageing in antiquity	1	(19)
The location of the life course: the household	20	(14)
The beginning of life: infancy and childhood	34	(20)
Transition to adulthood 1: female	54	(11)
Transition to adulthood 2: male	65	(14)
The place of marriage in the life course	79	(13)
Kinship extension and age mixing through marriage	92	(12)
Age and politics	104	(13)
Getting old	117	(15)
Death and memory	132	(12)
Age and ageing in the Roman Empire and beyond	144	(7)
Appendix	151	(14)
Bibliography	165	(10)
Index	175