Hesperia Supplement 41 : Constructions of Childhood in Ancient Greece and Italy

by: Cohen, A. Rutter, J.B.

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Constructions of childhood in ancient Greece and Italy
Authors:Ada Cohen, Jeremy B. Rutter

Description:
These 20 papers explore ancient notions and experiences of childhood around the Mediterranean, from prehistory to late antiquity. They are grouped into sections on Families; Socialization and Enculturation; Rituals and Life Transitions; Gender and Representation; Burial; Commemoration; and Childhood and the Classical Tradition. The contributors come from a range of different disciplines, including art history, archaeology, classical philology, and physical anthropology.

Contents:
Childhood between past and present / by Ada Cohen
The parental ethos of the Iliad / by Louise Pratt
Children in classical Attic votive reliefs / by Carol L. Lawton
The power of parenthood in official Roman art / by Jeannine Diddle Uzzi
Behaving like a child : immature gestures in Athenian vase painting / by Timothy J. McNiven
Paideia's children : childhood education in a group of late antique mosaics / by Constantin A. Marinescu, Sarah E. Cox and Rudolf Wachter
Educating Paula : a proposed curriculum for raising a 4th-century Christian infant / by Phyllis B. Katz
Children at risk : votive terracottas and the welfare of infants at Paestum / by Rebecca Miller Ammerman
Komos growing up among satyrs and children / by Amy C. Smith
The awkward age : art and maturation in early Greece / by Susan Langdon
Age and innocence : female transitions to adulthood in late antiquity / by Lisa A. Alberici and Mary Harlow
Children's work : girls as acolytes in Aegean ritual and cult / by Paul Rehak
Boys will be boys : youth and gender identity in the Theran frescoes / by Anne C. Chapin
Gendering the age gap : boys, girls and abduction in ancient Greek art / by Ada Cohen
Childhood among the Etruscans : mortuary programs at Tarquinia as indicators of the transition to adult status / by Marhsall Joseph Becker
Notions of childhood in the classical polis : evidence from the bioarchaeological record / by Anna Lagia
Forever young : an investigation of the depictions of children on classical Attic funerary monuments / by Janet Burnett Grossman
Constructing childhood on Roman funerary memorials / by Janet Huskinson
Racing with death : circus sarcophagi and the commemoration of children in Roman Italy / by Eve D'Ambra
Eros and the lizard : children, animals and Roman funerary sculpture / by Jean Sorabella
Children as poets, poets as children? : Romantic constructions of childhood and Hellenistic poetry / by Annemarie Ambuhl

About the Author: Ada Cohen is Associate Professor of Art History at Dartmouth College. Jeremy B. Rutter is Sherman Fairchild Professor of the Humanities at Dartmouth College.

Reviews:
"This beautifully-produced volume collects papers originally presented at a conference at Dartmouth College in 2003 organized in conjunction with the exhibition 'Coming of Age in Ancient Greece' at the Hood Art Museum. The contributors to this volume successfully address multiple aspects of ancient Mediterranean childhood with very little of the repetitive overlap or loss of thematic focus that can sometimes weaken edited collections. This volume represents the state of the art in Greco-Roman childhood studies and offers valuable resources to scholars of the ancient family, household, and lifecycle." Neil Bernstein, BMCR 2008.08.23

Hesperia Supplement 41 : Constructions of Childhood in Ancient Greece and Italy

by: Cohen, A. Rutter, J.B.

• ISBN-13: 9780876615416 / 978-0-87661-541-6
• ISBN-03: 0876615418 / 0-87661-541-8
• American School of Classical Studies at Athens, New Jersey, 2007

Price: 75,00 EURO

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