Family Lives : Aspects of Life and Death in Ancient Families

by: Johannsen, K.B. Petersen, J.H.

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This richly illustrated volume offers an informative and essential guide to understanding notions of family – in the broadest terms – in a broad geographical and cultural range within the Mediterranean area of the ancient world. The book examines facets of the ancient family and its many constellations through such diverse phenomena as life and death, religion, social status, age, and gender, in the context of both the public and the private spheres of ancient society. In this way, it sheds light on a wide range of aspects pertaining to the family: the family in the oikos/domus, theatre performances and burial contexts; how the family is reflected in votive practices, political propaganda, the Roman navy and negotiations; and how gender roles manifested both in private and in public.

The book is the outcome of a seminar held by the Collegium Hyperboreum in November 2015 and entitled Families in the Ancient World, where scholars from the Nordic countries came together across disciplines and academic levels to discuss ancient families.

Kristine Bøggild Johannsen is a curator at the Thorvaldsens Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark. She obtained her MA in classical archaeology from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Her primary area of research is the reception of antiquity in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Other interests include Roman architectural terracottas and portraiture from antiquity to the present day. She is currently co-directing (with Dr. Jane Fejfer, University of Copenhagen) the interdisciplinary research and dissemination project “Powerful Presences: The Sculptural Portrait between Absence and Presence, Group and Individual”. She has participated in several field projects, primarily in Italy but also in Cyprus and Germany.

Jane Hjarl Petersen is Associate Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense. She obtained her PhD from Aarhus University, Denmark, on burial customs and cultural identities on the Pontic shores in the archaic and classical periods. Her current research project concerns burial customs and material culture pertaining to burials in Ostia and Portus in the Roman imperial period. Main research areas include the archaeology of death and burial, interaction between culturally diverse population groups, the cultural settings of port cities, Orphism and the cult of Dionysos/Bacchus, as well as the distribution, reception and use-patterns of Greek ceramics. She has worked on a number of field projects in Italy, Cyprus and the Black Sea region.

ISSN 0904-2067

Family Lives : Aspects of Life and Death in Ancient Families

by: Johannsen, K.B. Petersen, J.H.

• ISBN-13: 9788763546393 / 978-87-635-4639-3
• ISBN-03: 8763546396 / 87-635-4639-6
• Museum Tusculanum Press, Copenhagen, 2019

Price: 69,00 EURO

1 copy in stock