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Growing Up Fatherless in Antiquity

Hübner, Sabine R. Ratzan David M.
Innbundet / 2009 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780521490504
Publisert
2009-02-19
Utgiver
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Cambridge University Press
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700 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
160 mm
Dybde
20 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
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Product language
Engelsk
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Innbundet
Antall sider
350

Redaktør
Hübner, Sabine R.
Ratzan David M.

Biographical note

Sabine R. Hubner is a Visiting Research Scholar at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University and an adjunct Assistant Professor of History at Columbia University. David M. Ratzan holds degrees in Classics from Yale University and Clare College, Cambridge. He is currently finishing his doctoral work at Columbia University on the social and economic history of contract in Roman Egypt.

Growing Up Fatherless in Antiquity

Hübner, Sabine R. Ratzan David M.
Innbundet / 2009 / Engelsk
Hübner, Sabine R. Ratzan David M.
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'Uniformly excellent … The chapters in this book are very effective reminders of the lasting emotional distress of growing up without a father … this book represents a welcome attempt to supplement demographic studies of ancient families with investigations of specific situations involving historical actors and literary characters.' Raymond Van Dam, AHB Online Reviews

As the changes in the traditional family accelerated toward the end of the twentieth century, a great deal of attention came to focus on fathers, both modern and ancient. While academics and politicians alike singled out the conspicuous and growing absence of the modern father as a crucial factor affecting contemporary family and social dynamics, ancient historians and classicists have rarely explored ancient father-absence, despite the likelihood that nearly a third of all children in the ancient Mediterranean world were fatherless before they turned fifteen. The proportion of children raised by single mothers, relatives, step-parents, or others was thus at least as high in antiquity as it is today. This book assesses the wide-ranging impact high levels of chronic father-absence had on the cultures, politics, and families of the ancient world.
Les mer
List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Note on abbreviations; Introduction: 1. Fatherless antiquity? Perspectives on 'fatherlessness' in the ancient Mediterranean Sabine R. Hübner and David M. Ratzan; Part I. Coping with Demographic Realities: 2. The demographic background Walter Scheidel; 3. Oedipal complexities Mark Golden; 4. Callirhoe's dilemma: remarriage and stepfathers in the Graeco-Roman east Sabine R. Hübner; 5. 'Without father, without mother, without genealogy': fatherlessness in the Old and New Testaments Marcus Sigismund; Part II. Virtual Fatherlessness: 6. Bastardy and fatherlessness in ancient Greece Daniel Ogden; 7. Fatherlessness and formal identification in Roman Egypt Myrto Malouta; Part III. Roles without Models: 8. Diomedes, the fatherless hero of the Iliad Louise Pratt; 9. Sons (and daughters) without fathers: fatherlessness in the Homeric epics Georg Wöhrle; 10. Absent Roman fathers in the writings of their daughters: Cornelia and Sulpicia Judith P. Hallett; Part IV. Rhetoric of Loss: 11. The disadvantages and advantages of being fatherless: the case of Sulla Sabine Müller; 12. An imperial family man: Augustus as surrogate father to Marcus Antonius' children Ann-Cathrin Harders; 13. Cui parens non erat maximus quisque et uetustissimus pro parente: parental surrogates in imperial Roman literature Neil W.Bernstein; 14. The education of orphans: a reassessment of the evidence of Libanius Raffaella Cribiore; 15. 'Woe to those making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless': Christian ideals and the obligations of stepfathers in late antiquity Geoffrey Nathan; Bibliography; Index.
Les mer
'Uniformly excellent … The chapters in this book are very effective reminders of the lasting emotional distress of growing up without a father … this book represents a welcome attempt to supplement demographic studies of ancient families with investigations of specific situations involving historical actors and literary characters.' Raymond Van Dam, AHB Online Reviews
Les mer
This book investigates the effects of fatherlessness on the societies, cultures, politics and families of the ancient Mediterranean world.

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'Uniformly excellent … The chapters in this book are very effective reminders of the lasting emotional distress of growing up without a father … this book represents a welcome attempt to supplement demographic studies of ancient families with investigations of specific situations involving historical actors and literary characters.' Raymond Van Dam, AHB Online Reviews

As the changes in the traditional family accelerated toward the end of the twentieth century, a great deal of attention came to focus on fathers, both modern and ancient. While academics and politicians alike singled out the conspicuous and growing absence of the modern father as a crucial factor affecting contemporary family and social dynamics, ancient historians and classicists have rarely explored ancient father-absence, despite the likelihood that nearly a third of all children in the ancient Mediterranean world were fatherless before they turned fifteen. The proportion of children raised by single mothers, relatives, step-parents, or others was thus at least as high in antiquity as it is today. This book assesses the wide-ranging impact high levels of chronic father-absence had on the cultures, politics, and families of the ancient world.
Les mer
List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Note on abbreviations; Introduction: 1. Fatherless antiquity? Perspectives on 'fatherlessness' in the ancient Mediterranean Sabine R. Hübner and David M. Ratzan; Part I. Coping with Demographic Realities: 2. The demographic background Walter Scheidel; 3. Oedipal complexities Mark Golden; 4. Callirhoe's dilemma: remarriage and stepfathers in the Graeco-Roman east Sabine R. Hübner; 5. 'Without father, without mother, without genealogy': fatherlessness in the Old and New Testaments Marcus Sigismund; Part II. Virtual Fatherlessness: 6. Bastardy and fatherlessness in ancient Greece Daniel Ogden; 7. Fatherlessness and formal identification in Roman Egypt Myrto Malouta; Part III. Roles without Models: 8. Diomedes, the fatherless hero of the Iliad Louise Pratt; 9. Sons (and daughters) without fathers: fatherlessness in the Homeric epics Georg Wöhrle; 10. Absent Roman fathers in the writings of their daughters: Cornelia and Sulpicia Judith P. Hallett; Part IV. Rhetoric of Loss: 11. The disadvantages and advantages of being fatherless: the case of Sulla Sabine Müller; 12. An imperial family man: Augustus as surrogate father to Marcus Antonius' children Ann-Cathrin Harders; 13. Cui parens non erat maximus quisque et uetustissimus pro parente: parental surrogates in imperial Roman literature Neil W.Bernstein; 14. The education of orphans: a reassessment of the evidence of Libanius Raffaella Cribiore; 15. 'Woe to those making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless': Christian ideals and the obligations of stepfathers in late antiquity Geoffrey Nathan; Bibliography; Index.
Les mer
'Uniformly excellent … The chapters in this book are very effective reminders of the lasting emotional distress of growing up without a father … this book represents a welcome attempt to supplement demographic studies of ancient families with investigations of specific situations involving historical actors and literary characters.' Raymond Van Dam, AHB Online Reviews
Les mer
This book investigates the effects of fatherlessness on the societies, cultures, politics and families of the ancient Mediterranean world.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780521490504
Publisert
2009-02-19
Utgiver
Vendor
Cambridge University Press
Vekt
700 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
160 mm
Dybde
20 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
350

Redaktør
Hübner, Sabine R.
Ratzan David M.

Biographical note

Sabine R. Hubner is a Visiting Research Scholar at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University and an adjunct Assistant Professor of History at Columbia University. David M. Ratzan holds degrees in Classics from Yale University and Clare College, Cambridge. He is currently finishing his doctoral work at Columbia University on the social and economic history of contract in Roman Egypt.

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