The Oxford Handbook of Childhood and Education in the Classical World

Edited by Judith Evans Grubbs, Tim Parkin, and Roslynne Bell

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One of the first collected volumes on ancient families
Cutting-edge approach to questions of gestation, birth, death, education, and educational philosophy in Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, and the Eastern Mediterranean

The Oxford Handbook of Childhood and Education in the Classical World

Edited by Judith Evans Grubbs, Tim Parkin, and Roslynne Bell

Description

The past thirty years have seen an explosion of interest in Greek and Roman social history, particularly studies of women and the family. Until recently these studies did not focus especially on children and childhood, but considered children in the larger context of family continuity and inter-family relationships, or legal issues like legitimacy, adoption and inheritance. Recent publications have examined a variety of aspects related to childhood in ancient Greece and Rome, but until now nothing has attempted to comprehensively survey the state of ancient childhood studies. This handbook does just that, showcasing the work of both established and rising scholars and demonstrating the variety of approaches to the study of childhood in the classical world. In thirty chapters, with a detailed introduction and envoi, The Oxford Handbook of Childhood and Education in the Classical World presents current research in a wide range of topics on ancient childhood, including sub-disciplines of Classics that rarely appear in collections on the family or childhood such as archaeology and ancient medicine. Contributors include some of the foremost experts in the fieldas well as younger, up-and-coming scholars. Unlike most edited volumes on childhood or the family in antiquity, this collection also gives attention to the late antique period and whether (or how) conceptions of childhood and the life of children changed with Christianity. The chronological spread runs from archaic Greece to the later Roman Empire (fifth century C.E.). Geographical areas covered include not only classical Greece and Roman Italy, but also the eastern Mediterranean. The Oxford Handbook of Childhood and Education in the Classical World engages with perennially valuable questions about family and education in the ancient world while providing a much-needed touchstone for research in the field.

The Oxford Handbook of Childhood and Education in the Classical World

Edited by Judith Evans Grubbs, Tim Parkin, and Roslynne Bell

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CONTRIBUTORS
ABBREVIATIONS
INTRODUCTION
PART I. GESTATION, BIRTH, DISEASE, AND DEATH
1. Véronique Dasen, Université de Fribourg
"Becoming Human: from the Embryo to the Newborn Child"
2. Tim Parkin, University of Manchester
"The Demography of Infancy and Early Childhood in the Ancient World"
3. Maria Liston and Susan Rotroff, University of Waterloo/Washington University in St. Louis
"Babies in the Well: Archaeological Evidence for Newborn Disposal in Hellenistic Greece"
4. Judith Evans Grubbs, Emory University
"(Not) Bringing up Baby: Infant Exposure and Infanticide"
5. Lesley Dean-Jones, University of Texas at Austin
"The child patient of the Hippocratics: early Pediatrics?"
6. Christian Laes, University of Antwerp/Free University of Brussels
"Raising a Disabled Child"
PART II. CHILDREN AND CHILDHOOD IN ANCIENT GREECE
7. John Oakley, College of William and Mary
"Children in Archaic and Classical Greek art: A Survey"
8. Susan Langdon, University of Missouri at Columbia
"Children as Learners and Producers in Early Greece"
9. Lesley Beaumont, University of Sydney
"Shifting Gender: Age and Social Status as Modifiers of Childhood Gender in Ancient Athens"
10. Robert Garland, Colgate University
"Children in Athenian Religion"
11. Louise Pratt, Emory University
"Play, Pathos and Precocity: The Three 'P's of Greek Literary Childhood"
PART III. CHILDREN AND CHILDHOOD IN ANCIENT ROME
12. Mark Golden, University of Winnipeg
"Children in Latin Epic"
13. Janette McWilliam, University of Queensland
"The Socialization of Roman Children"
14. Hanne Sigismund Nielsen, University of Calgary
"Slave and Lower-class Roman Children"
15. Lena Larsson Lovén, Gøteburg University
"Children and Childhood in Roman Commemorative Art"
16. Mary Harlow, University of Birmingham
"Toys, Dolls and the Material Culture of Childhood"
17. Thomas A.J. McGinn, Vanderbilt University
"Roman Children and the Law"
PART IV. EDUCATION AND EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY IN THE CLASSICAL WORLD
18. Cynthia Patterson, Emory University
"Education in Plato's Laws"
19. Nigel Kennell, American School of Classical Studies at Athens
"Boys, Girls, Family, and the State at Sparta"
20. Matthew Dillon, University of New England
"Engendering the Scroll: Girls' and Women's Literacy in Classical Greece"
21. Eric Casey, Sweet Briar College
"Educating the Youth: the Athenian ephebeia in the Early Hellenistic Era"
22. Martin Bloomer, University of Notre Dame
"The Ancient Child in School"
PART V. CHILDREN IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN
23. Maryline Parca, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
"Children in Hellenistic Egypt: What the Papyri Say"
24. April Pudsey, Birkbeck College
"Children in Roman Egypt"
25. Sabine Huebner, Max-Planck Institut, Rostock
"Adoption and Fosterage in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean"
26. Hagith Sivan, University of Kansas
"Pictorial paideia: Children in the Synagogue"
PART VI. LATE ANTIQUITY AND EARLY CHRISTIANITY
27. Blake Leyerle, University of Notre Dame
"Children and 'the Child' in early Christianity"
28. Ville Vuolanto, University of Tampere
"Elite Children, Socialization and Agency in the Late Roman world"
29. Jenny Kreiger, University of Michigan
"Remembering Children in the Roman Catacombs"
30. Susan Stevens, Randolph College
"Stages of Infancy in Roman Amphora Burial"
ENVOI
Keith Bradley, University of Notre Dame
INDEX

The Oxford Handbook of Childhood and Education in the Classical World

Edited by Judith Evans Grubbs, Tim Parkin, and Roslynne Bell

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Author Information

Edited by Judith Evans Grubbs, Professor of Classics, Washington University in St. Louis, Tim Parkin, Professor of Ancient History, University of Manchester, and Roslynne Bell

Judith Evans Grubbs is Betty Gage Holland Professor of Roman History at Emory University. Tim Parkin is Professor of Ancient History at University of Manchester.

Contributors:

Lesley Beaumont, University of Sydney
Roslynne Bell, University of Manchester
Martin Bloomer, University of Notre Dame
Keith Bradley, University of Notre Dame
Eric Casey, Sweet Briar College
Véronique Dasen, Université de Fribourg
Lesley Dean-Jones, University of Texas at Austin
Matthew Dillon, University of New England
Judith Evans Grubbs, Emory University
Robert Garland, Colgate University
Mark Golden, University of Winnipeg
Mary Harlow, University of Leicester
Sabine Huebner, Max-Planck Institut, Rostock (Freie Universitaet Berlin) ??
Nigel Kennell, American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Jenny Kreiger, University of Michigan
Christian Laes, University of Antwerp/Free University of Brussels
Susan Langdon, University of Missouri at Columbia
Blake Leyerle, University of Notre Dame
Maria Liston, University of Waterloo
Lena Larsson Lovén, Gøteburg University
Thomas A.J. McGinn, Vanderbilt University
Janette McWilliam, University of Queensland
Hanne Sigismund Nielsen, University of Calgary
John Oakley, College of William and Mary
Maryline Parca, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Tim Parkin, University of Manchester
Cynthia Patterson, Emory University
Louise Pratt, Emory University
April Pudsey, Birkbeck College
Susan Rotroff, Washington University in St. Louis
Hagith Sivan, University of Kansas
Susan Stevens, Randolph College
Ville Vuolanto, University of Tampere

The Oxford Handbook of Childhood and Education in the Classical World

Edited by Judith Evans Grubbs, Tim Parkin, and Roslynne Bell

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"succeeds in making children visible and in giving a fascinating picture of ancient childhood, offering indeed an embarras de richesses. It repays reading and rereading." - Inga Mantle, Classics for All