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"One of the very best volumes in the Ancient Society and History series... The material is well presented and skillfully analyzed so as to expose the 'true' rather than the theoretical."
(Greece and Rome.)Unfaithful spouses, divorce and remarriage, rebellious children, aging parents--today's headlines are filled with issues said to be responsible for a "breakdown" of the traditional family. But are any of these problems truly new? What can we learn from the ways in which societies dealt with them in the past? Suzanne Dixon sets the current debate about the family against a broader context in The Roman Family, the first book to bring together what historians, anthropologists, and philologists have learned about the family in ancient Rome. Dixon begins by reviewing the controversies regarding the family in general and the Roman family in particular. After considering the problems of evidence, she explores what the Roman concept of "family" really meant and how Roman families functioned. Turning to the legal status of the Roman family, she shows how previous studies, which relied exclusively on legal evidence, fell short of describing the reality of Roman life. (Many relations not recognized by law--the slave family, for instance, or the marriage of imperial soldiers--were tolerated socially and eventually gained some legal recognition.) Other topics include love and other aspects of the institution of marriage, the role of the children in the family, how families adjusted to new members, and how they dealt with aging and death.
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Zustand: Antiquarian. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore / London, 1992. XIV,279p. ills.(B&W photographs). Paperback. Upper and lower corner front cover a tiny bit creased. 'As D. explains in her preface, there are two reasons why the intention of this book is not to produce a definitive or comprehensive account of the subject. Firstly, the nature and purpose of the family is currently a subject of active public debate. Secondly, she herself remarks on the great changes in focus, in the study of the history of the family, during the few years she spent on this book (.). The work therefore has something of the character of an interim report. The first chapter provides a good survey, useful both for specialists and for the more general reader, of past trends in scholarship on the history of the family, and the Roman family in particular. The four chapters that make up the bulk of the rest of the book concern respectively family relations and the law (Chapter Two), marriage (Three), children (Four) and the life-cycle (Five). Their contents are mainly divided between matters of law, and (more speculatively) of attitudes, in varying proportions (.). The book contains much that is sensible and thought-provoking, and does a useful service, both in summing up the results of much recent work on the Roman family, and suggesting possible future lines of approach.' (JANE F. GARDNER in The Classical Review (New Series), 1993, pp.359-360). From the library of Prof. Carl Deroux. Antiquarian. Artikel-Nr. 50243
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