The family has played a central role in most societies, and the complexity and variety of that role demonstrates there is no single definition or pattern of "the family" in any society. Recent studies of ancient Rome have shown that the sentimental ideal of a core nuclear family was strong throughout the period, but that reality often diverged from the ideal. This study examines many aspects of the composition and inner workings of the Roman family, and provides an illuminating case study of the sentimental ideal versus everyday reality. In addition, Rawson considers the effect of divorce, high mortality rates, status, and fostering on the family in ancient Rome.
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"The essays are of uniformly high quality....The collection will be quite useful to all students of Roman social history or comparative family history."--Choice
"The importance of the subject and the quality of the individual essays should attract a wide audience among historians of ancient times and those concerned with other areas of family history."--History: Reviews of New Books
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Beryl Rawson is Professor of Classics at the Australian National University, Canberra.
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This review is from: Marriage, Divorce, and Children in Ancient Rome (OUP/Humanities Research Centre of the Australian National University) (Paperback)
The quality of the book is varied as the quality of the articles included varies. Some of the scholars have clear biases they are operating from in their research, most are not up front about such bias. Rawson has however, collected some of the leading scholars in the field into one place thus providing the reader with a good range of views and topics. A good book for a class on the ancient family.
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ALL of these aspects of family and household discussed in this volume affect adult-child relationships, directly or indirectly. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
formal manumission, liberis educandis, consensual divorce, freeborn status, tria nomina, repeated marriage, freeborn women, patria potestas, sui iuris, sentimental ideal, serial marriage Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Valerius Maximus, Aemilius Paullus, Calatoria Themis, Aelia Sentia, John Chrysostom, Petronius Stephanus, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Marcus Aurelius, Claudius Nero, Pro Cluentio, Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, Claudius Marcellus, Laudatio Turiae, Marcius Philippus, Pro Caelio, Aemilius Lepidus, Claudius Pulcher, Acilius Glabrio, Aemilius Scaurus, Aulus Gellius, Calpurnius Piso, Julius Caesar, Licinius Crassus, Natural History, Petronius Telesphorus New!
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ALL of these aspects of family and household discussed in this volume affect adult-child relationships, directly or indirectly. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
formal manumission, liberis educandis, consensual divorce, freeborn status, tria nomina, repeated marriage, freeborn women, patria potestas, sui iuris, sentimental ideal, serial marriage Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Valerius Maximus, Aemilius Paullus, Calatoria Themis, Aelia Sentia, John Chrysostom, Petronius Stephanus, Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Marcus Aurelius, Claudius Nero, Pro Cluentio, Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, Claudius Marcellus, Laudatio Turiae, Marcius Philippus, Pro Caelio, Aemilius Lepidus, Claudius Pulcher, Acilius Glabrio, Aemilius Scaurus, Aulus Gellius, Calpurnius Piso, Julius Caesar, Licinius Crassus, Natural History, Petronius Telesphorus New!
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