Childhood In Ancient Athens

Author : Mark Golden
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421416854

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Children and Childhood in Classical Athens by Mark Golden Pdf

A thoroughly revised and updated edition of Mark Golden’s groundbreaking study of childhood in ancient Greece. First published in 1990, Children and Childhood in Classical Athens was the first book in English to explore the lives of children in ancient Athens. Drawing on literary, artistic, and archaeological sources as well as on comparative studies of family history, Mark Golden offers a vivid portrait of the public and private lives of children from about 500 to 300 B.C. Golden discusses how the Athenians viewed children and childhood, describes everyday activities of children at home and in the community, and explores the differences in the social lives of boys and girls. He details the complex bonds among children, parents, siblings, and household slaves, and he shows how a growing child’s changing roles often led to conflict between the demands of family and the demands of community. In this thoroughly revised edition, Golden places particular emphasis on the problem of identifying change over time and the relationship of children to adults. He also explores three dominant topics in the recent historiography of childhood: the agency of children, the archaeology of childhood, and representations of children in art. The book includes a completely new final chapter, text and notes rewritten throughout to incorporate evidence and scholarship that has appeared over the past twenty-five years, and an index of ancient sources.

Author : Lesley A. Beaumont
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136486692

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Childhood in Ancient Athens by Lesley A. Beaumont Pdf

Childhood in Ancient Athens offers an in-depth study of children during the heyday of the Athenian city state, thereby illuminating a significant social group largely ignored by most ancient and modern authors alike. It concentrates not only on the child's own experience, but also examines the perceptions of children and childhood by Athenian society: these perceptions variously exhibit both similarities and stark contrasts with those of our own 21st century Western society. The study covers the juvenile life course from birth and infancy through early and later childhood, and treats these life stages according to the topics of nurture, play, education, work, cult and ritual, and death. In view of the scant ancient Greek literary evidence pertaining to childhood, Beaumont focuses on the more copious ancient visual representations of children in Athenian pot painting, sculpture, and terracotta modelling. Notably, this is the first full-length monograph in English to address the iconography of childhood in ancient Athens, and it breaks important new ground by rigorously analysing and evaluating classical art to reconstruct childhood’s social history. With over 120 illustrations, the book provides a rich visual, as well as narrative, resource for the history of childhood in classical antiquity.

Author : Ada Cohen,Jeremy B. Rutter
Publisher : ASCSA
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780876615416

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Constructions of Childhood in Ancient Greece and Italy by Ada Cohen,Jeremy B. Rutter Pdf

This volume contains 20 papers that explore ancient notions and experiences of childhood around the Mediterranean, from prehistory to late antiquity.

Author : Stephen John Morewitz,Jenifer Neils,John Howard Oakley,Katherine Hart,Lesley A. Beaumont
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300099607

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Coming of Age in Ancient Greece by Stephen John Morewitz,Jenifer Neils,John Howard Oakley,Katherine Hart,Lesley A. Beaumont Pdf

What was childhood like in ancient Greece? What activities and games did Greek children embrace? How were they schooled and what religious and ceremonial rites of passage were key to their development? These fascinating questions and many more are answered in this groundbreaking book--the first English-language study to feature and discuss imagery and artifacts relating to childhood in ancient Greece.Coming of Age in Ancient Greece shows that the Greeks were the first culture to represent children and their activities naturalistically in their art. Here we learn about depictions of children in myth as well as life, from infancy to adolescence. This beautifully illustrated book features such archaeological artifacts as toys and gaming pieces alongside images of them in use by children on ancient vases, coins, terracotta figurines, bronze and stone sculpture, and marble grave monuments. Essays by eminent scholars in the fields of Greek social history, literature, archaeology, anthropology, and art history discuss a wide range of topics, including the burgeoning role of childhood studies in interdisciplinary studies; the status of children in Greek culture; the evolution of attitudes toward children from the Bronze Age to the Hellenistic period as documented by literature and art; the relationships of fathers and sons and mothers and daughters; and the roles of cult practice and death in a child's existence.This delightful book illuminates what is most universal and specific about childhood in ancient Greece and examines childhood's effects on Greek life and culture, the foundation on which Western civilization has been based.

Author : Judith Evans Grubbs,Tim Parkin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199781607

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The Oxford Handbook of Childhood and Education in the Classical World by Judith Evans Grubbs,Tim Parkin Pdf

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 field as 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.

Author : Lesley A. Beaumont,Matthew Dillon,Nicola Harrington
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 839 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134870752

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Children in Antiquity by Lesley A. Beaumont,Matthew Dillon,Nicola Harrington Pdf

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.

Author : Dion Sommer,Maria Sommer
Publisher : Aarhus Universitetsforlag
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9788771840599

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Care, Socialization and Play in Ancient Attica by Dion Sommer,Maria Sommer Pdf

Research on children and childhood in ancient Greece is a field in its infancy. This book proposes a new interdisciplinary approach called Developmental Childhood Archaeology. In essence it is an archaeological study based on a collection of material relation to childhood in ancient Attica, dating back to 480-300 B.C. That is, various types of toys, iconographic evidence of children on vases and graves steles, primary written sources on children's lives, and the view on children in the Greek Classical period.

Author : Deborah Kamen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691195971

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Status in Classical Athens by Deborah Kamen Pdf

In the first comprehensive account of status in ancient democratic Athens, Kamen illuminates the complexity of Athenian social structure, uncovers tensions between democratic ideology and practice, and contributes to larger questions about the relationship between citizenship and democracy.

Author : Michael Scott
Publisher : History Essentials
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 178856040X

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Life in Ancient Greece by Michael Scott Pdf

Author : Jenifer Neils,Dylan K. Rogers
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108484558

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The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Athens by Jenifer Neils,Dylan K. Rogers Pdf

This book is a comprehensive introduction to ancient Athens, its topography, monuments, inhabitants, cultural institutions, religious rituals, and politics. Drawing from the newest scholarship on the city, this volume examines how the city was planned, how it functioned, and how it was transformed from a democratic polis into a Roman urbs.

Author : Baby Professor
Publisher : Speedy Publishing LLC
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-01
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781541923713

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The Stories of Athens - Ancient History 5th Grade | Children's Ancient History by Baby Professor Pdf

Wouldn’t it be interesting to read about tales from long ago, and from a far-away country at that? Reading about the past, myths and truths combined, will help create a picture of what life was like all those years ago. You can compare living then and today to better appreciate the comforts provided to you by those lived before you. Read and learn today!

Author : Maria A. Liston,Susan I. Rotroff,Lynn M. Snyder
Publisher : American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781621390350

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The Agora Bone Well by Maria A. Liston,Susan I. Rotroff,Lynn M. Snyder Pdf

Even though Dorothy Thompson excavated the Agora Bone Well in 1938, the well and its remarkable finds have never been fully studied until now. Located outside the northwest corner of the Athenian Agora and dating to the second quarter of the 2nd century B.C., the well contained the remains of roughly 460 newborn infants, as well as a few older individuals. Also found in the well were the bones of over 150 dogs and an assortment of other animals, plus various artifacts, including an intriguing herm (treated here by Andrew Stewart) and an ivory chape. In addition to a thorough examination of the contents of the well, the authors provide a thoughtful analysis of the neighborhood in which the well was located and carefully compare the deposit with similar accumulations found elsewhere in the Mediterranean. The product of close cooperation between archaeological, palaeoanthropological, and faunal scholars, this interdisciplinary work will be of interest to a large audience across a variety of fields.

Author : Richard V. Cudjoe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Athens (Greece)
ISBN : 9609925006

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The Social and Legal Position of Widows and Orphans in Classical Athens by Richard V. Cudjoe Pdf

Author : Nicole Loraux
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691236834

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The Children of Athena by Nicole Loraux Pdf

According to one myth, the first Athenian citizen was born from the earth after the sperm of a rejected lover, the god Hephaistos, dripped off the virgin goddess Athena's leg and onto fertile soil. Henceforth Athenian citizens could claim to be truly indigenous to their city and to have divine origins that bypassed maternity. In these essays, the renowned French Hellenist Nicole Loraux examines the implication of this and other Greek origin myths as she explores how Athenians in the fifth century forged and maintained a collective identity.

Author : John Freely
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857736307

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Children of Achilles by John Freely Pdf

Since the days of Troy historic lands of Asia Minor have been home to Greeks. They are steeped in a rich fusion of Greek and Turkish culture and the histories of both are irrevocably entwined, fatefully connected. "Children of Achilles" tells the epic and ultimately tragic story of the Greek presence in Anatolia, beginning with the Trojan War and culminating in 1923 with the devastating population exchange that followed the Turkish War of Independence. The once magnificent, now ruined, cities that cluster along the Aegean and Mediterranean coasts of Turkey are reminders of a civilization that produced the first Hellenic enlightenment, giving birth to Homer, Herodotus and the first philosophers of nature. For more three millennia the Anatolian Greeks preserved their identity and culture as the tides of history washed over them, enduring conflicts that historians since Herodotus have seen as an unending clash of civilizations between East and West. Today, the memory of the Greek diaspora from Asia Minor lives on in the music of rebetika, the threnodies known as amanadas, and the poetry of Seferis, and even now the descendants of those exiles speak with nostalgia of 'i kath'imas Anatoli' - our own Anatolia, their lost homeland. This, told for the first time, is their story, from glorious beginnings to a bitter end, a story that continues to echo through the ages and across continents.