Portraits of Children on Roman Funerary Monuments

ISBN-13: 9781107001022 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 411 str.

Jason Mander

Opis

Uses a wide selection of tombstones to assess how Roman parents commemorated their children and visualised childhood.

Recenzje

'Mander has produced a study of Roman childhood that is exemplary not only for the physical research that has gone into documenting this far-flung body of monuments but also for his rigorous, wide-ranging, and sober analysis of that corpus within its broader visual traditions and social-historical contexts. This is a book that any scholar with an interest in ancient childhood, the family, and social history will profit from reading.' Sinclair Bell, American Journal of Archaeology

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. Locating the Roman child; 3. The iconography of childhood; 4. Nuclear notions; 5. Fluid families; 6. Portraits in context; 7. Conclusion; Catalogue.