Description
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 bioarchaeology.
With a chronological range of the Bronze Age to Byzantium and regional coverage of Egypt, Greece, and Italy this is the largest survey of childhood yet undertaken for the ancient world. Within this chronological and regional framework both the social construction of childhood and the child’s life experience are explored through the key topics of the definition of childhood, daily life, religion and ritual, death, and the information provided by bioarchaeology. No other volume to date provides such a comprehensive, systematic and cross-cultural study of childhood in the ancient Mediterranean world. In particular, its focus on the identification of society-specific definitions of childhood and the incorporation of the bioarchaeological perspective makes this work a unique and innovative study.
Children in Antiquity provides an invaluable and unrivalled resource for anyone working on all aspects of the lives and deaths of children in the ancient Mediterranean world.
Table of Contents
Introduction: investigating the ancient Mediterranean ‘childscape’
Lesley A. Beaumont, Matthew Dillon and Nicola Harrington
PART I: What is a child?
1. The ancient Egyptian conception of children and childhood
Nicola Harrington
2. What is a child in Aegean prehistory?
Anne P. Chapin
3. Ideological constructions of childhood in Bronze and Early Iron Age Italy: personhood between marginality and social inclusion
Elisa Perego
4. Defi ning childhood and youth: a regional approach to Archaic and Classical Greece: the case of Athens and Sparta
Lesley A. Beaumont
5. The child in Etruscan Italy
Marjatta Nielsen
6. Children and the Hellenistic period
Mark Golden
7. Roman childhood revisited
Véronique Dasen
8. From birth to rebirth: perceptions of childhood in Greco-Roman Egypt
Lissette M. Jiménez
9. Looking for children in Late Antiquity
Geoff rey Nathan
10. From village to monastery: fi nding children in the Coptic record from Egypt
Jennifer Cromwell
PART II: Daily life
11. The child’s experience of daily life in ancient Egypt
Amandine Marshall
12. Changing states: daily life of children in Mycenaean and Early Iron Age Greece
Susan Langdon
13. Children in early Rome and Latium
Sanna Lipkin and Eero Jarva
14. Being a child in Archaic and Classical Greece
Robert S.J. Garland
15. The daily life of Etruscan babies and children
Larissa Bonfante
16. Being a child in the Hellenistic world: a subject out of proportion?
Christian Laes
17. Diff erent lives: children’s daily experiences in the Roman world
Fanny Dolansky
18. Children as instruments of policy in Hadrian’s Egypt
Myrto Malouta
19. Daily life of children in Late Antiquity: play, work and vulnerability
Ville Vuolanto
PART III: Religion and ritual
20. “Child in the nest”: children in Pharaonic Egyptian religion and rituals
Kasia Szpakowska
21. Children and Aegean Bronze Age religion
Ute Günkel- Maschek
22. Initiating children into Italian Bronze and Early Iron Age ritual, religion and cosmology
Erik van Rossenberg
23. Children in Archaic and Classical Greek religion: active and passive ritual agency
Matthew Dillon
24. Children in Etruscan religion and ritual
Jean MacIntosh Turfa
25. Children’s roles in Hellenistic religion
Olympia Bobou
26. Children in Roman religion and ritual
Janette McWilliam
27. Children, religion and ritual in Greco-Roman Egypt
Ada Nifosi
28. The child in Late Antique religion and ritual
Béatrice Caseau
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)
Ronika K. Power
30. “Do not say ‘I am young to be taken’ ”: children and death in ancient Egypt: Second Intermediate Period to the Late Period
Jessica Kaiser
31. Children and death in Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Greece
Chrysanthi Gallou
32. Children, death and society in Late Bronze Age and Iron Age Sicily
Gillian Shepherd
33. Children and death in Archaic and Classical Greece
Vicky Vlachou
34. Infancy and childhood in funerary contexts of Early Iron Age Middle Tyrrhenian Italy: a comparative approach
Francesca Fulminante and Simon Stoddart
35. Child death in the Hellenistic world
Nikolas Dimakis
36. Death of a Roman child
Hugh Lindsay
37. Death of a child: demographic and preparation trends of juvenile burials in the Graeco-Roman Fayoum
Kerry Muhlestein and R. Paul Evans
38. Infant mortality, Michael Psellos and the Byzantine demon Gillo
Lynda Garland
PART V: Bioarchaeology
39. The bioarchaeology of children in Greco-Roman antiquity
Kathryn E. Marklein and Sherry C. Fox
40. Infancy and childhood in Roman Egypt: bioarchaeological perspectives
Sandra M. Wheeler, Lana Williams and Tosha L. Dupras
41. “The greatest of treasures”: advances in the bioarchaeology of Byzantine children
Chryssi Bourbou
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