Married Life in Greco-Roman Antiquity

ISBN-13: 9780367345044 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 216 str.

Claude-Emmanuelle Centlivres Challet

Opis

Beyond the institution of marriage, its norms, and rules, what was life like for married couples in Greco-Roman antiquity? This volume explores a huge range of sources over seven centuries to uncover possible answers to this question.

Recenzje

"This is a strong contribution to the topic of marriage in the antique Mediterranean world and each essay has considerable merit." - Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Spis treści

1 Life Within an Ancient Knot: The Extraordinary within the Confines of the Ordinary  2 Mind the Gap: Evidence (?) for Non-Elite Couples in the Hellenistic Period  3 From Ideal to Reality: Married Couples on Hellenistic Inscribed Grave Epigrams  4 Vilicus and Vilica in the De Agri Cultura: The Elder Cato’s Script for a Farming Couple  5 Literary Models and Social Challenges: Marital Love According to Ovid in the Tristia and Epistulae Ex Ponto  6 For Better or for Worse: Conjugal Relationships of Writers and Intellectuals under the Challenges of the Empire  7 Worth Her Weight: Worthy Women, Coupling, and Eating in Petronius’ Satyrica  8 Reading Plutarch’s Marriage Precepts  9 Looking Ordinary: Ideals and Ideologies in the Iconography of Married Couples in Roman Society  10 Material Aspects of Marriage: Economic Transactions between Spouses in Roman Egypt  11 ‘For I Have No Other Sun But You’: Emotions and Married Life in Greek Papyri

O autorze

Claude-Emmanuelle Centlivres Challet is Scientific Collaborator at the Institut d’Archéologie et des Sciences de l’Antiquité at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Her research interests and publications include genders and couple relationships (Like Man, Like Woman: Roman Women, Gender Qualities and Conjugal Relationships at the Turn of the First Century, 2013), family, sexuality, breastfeeding, breast pumps, infant feeding, Pliny the Younger, and Juvenal. Her next book explores gender pressure in Roman times.