Children in Antiquity: Perspectives and Experiences of Childhood in the Ancient Mediterranean

ISBN-13: 9781138780866 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 620 str.

Lesley Beaumont; Matthew Dillon; Nicola Harrington

Opis

This collection employs a multi-disciplinary approach treating ancient childhood in a holistic manner according to diachronic, regional and thematic perspectives. This multi-disciplinary approach encompasses Classical Studies, Egyptology, ancient history and the broad spectrum of archaeology, including iconography and forensic science.

Spis treści

Introduction: investigating the ancient Mediterranean ‘childscape’  PART I: What is a child?  1. The ancient Egyptian conception of children and childhood  2. What is a child in Aegean prehistory?  3. Ideological constructions of childhood in Bronze and Early Iron Age Italy: personhood between marginality and social inclusion  4. Defi ning childhood and youth: a regional approach to Archaic and Classical Greece: the case of Athens and Sparta  5. The child in Etruscan Italy  6. Children and the Hellenistic period  7. Roman childhood revisited  8. From birth to rebirth: perceptions of childhood in Greco-Roman Egypt  9. Looking for children in Late Antiquity  10. From village to monastery: fi nding children in the Coptic record from Egypt  PART II: Daily life  11. The child’s experience of daily life in ancient Egypt  12. Changing states: daily life of children in Mycenaean and Early Iron Age Greece  13. Children in early Rome and Latium  14. Being a child in Archaic and Classical Greece  15. The daily life of Etruscan babies and children  16. Being a child in the Hellenistic world: a subject out of proportion?  17. Different lives: children’s daily experiences in the Roman world  18. Children as instruments of policy in Hadrian’s Egypt  19. Daily life of children in Late Antiquity: play, work and vulnerability  PART III: Religion and ritual  20. “Child in the nest”: children in Pharaonic Egyptian religion and rituals  21. Children and Aegean Bronze Age religion  22. Initiating children into Italian Bronze and Early Iron Age ritual, religion and cosmology  23. Children in Archaic and Classical Greek religion: active and passive ritual agency  24. Children in Etruscan religion and ritual  25. Children’s roles in Hellenistic religion  26. Children in Roman religion and ritual  27. Children, religion and ritual in Greco-Roman Egypt  28. The child in Late Antique religion and ritual  PART IV: Death  29. Child, infant and foetal burials in the Egyptian archaeological record: exploring cultural capacities from the Predynastic to Middle Kingdom Periods (c. 4400–1650 BC)  30. “Do not say ‘I am young to be taken’ ”: children and death in ancient Egypt: Second Intermediate Period to the Late Period  31. Children and death in Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Greece  32. Children, death and society in Late Bronze Age and Iron Age Sicily  33. Children and death in Archaic and Classical Greece  34. Infancy and childhood in funerary contexts of Early Iron Age Middle Tyrrhenian Italy: a comparative approach  35. Child death in the Hellenistic world  36. Death of a Roman child  37. Death of a child: demographic and preparation trends of juvenile burials in the Graeco-Roman Fayoum  38. Infant mortality, Michael Psellos and the Byzantine demon Gillo  PART V: Bioarchaeology  39. The bioarchaeology of children in Greco-Roman antiquity  40. Infancy and childhood in Roman Egypt: bioarchaeological perspectives  41. “The greatest of treasures”: advances in the bioarchaeology of Byzantine children