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Modern society has a negative view of youth as a period of storm and stress, but at the same time cherishes the idea of eternal youth. How does this compare with ancient Roman society? Did a phase of youth exist there with its own characteristics? How was youth appreciated? This book studies the lives and the image of youngsters (around 15-25 years of age) in the Latin West and the Greek East in the Roman period. Boys and girls of all social classes come to the fore; their lives, public and private, are sketched with the help of a range of textual and documentary sources, while the authors also employ the results of recent neuropsychological research. The result is a highly readable and wide-ranging account of how the crucial transition between childhood and adulthood operated in the Roman world.
Contents
1. Questioning the concept of youth; 2. Minority, majority: youth, divisions of the human life course and Roman law; 3. Terminology and characteristics of youth; 4. Rites of transition; 5. Youth and ancient medicine; 6. Youth and education: the rhetor and 'university'; 7. Associations of adolescent youths; 8. Youthful behaviour; 9. Youths in public offices; 10. Occupational training; 11. Marriage; 12. Youth and Christianity: continuity or change?; Conclusion.
