9780521490504 - Growing Up Fatherless in Antiquity (5 Ergebnisse)

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Cloth with dustjacket. Zustand: Gut. XVI, 333 p. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Schutzumschlag etwas berieben, sonst sehr guter Zustand / dust jacket a little rubbed, otherwise very good condition. - As the changes in the traditional family accelerated toward the end of the twentieth century, a great deal of attention came to focus on fathers, both modern and ancient. While academics and politicians alike singled out the conspicuous and growing absence of the modern father as a crucial factor affecting contemporary family and social dynamics, ancient historians and classicists have rarely explored ancient father-absence, despite the likelihood that nearly a third of all children in the ancient Mediterranean world were fatherless before they turned fifteen. The proportion of children raised by single mothers, relatives, step parents, or others was thus at least as high in antiquity as it is today. This book assesses the wide-ranging impact that high levels of chronic father-absence had on the cultures, politics, and families of the ancient world. / CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 1. Fatherless antiquity? Perspectives on "fatherlessness" in the ancient Mediterranean Sabine R. Hübner and David M. Ratzan PART I. COPING WITH DEMOGRAPHIC REALITIES 2. The demographic background Walter Scheidel 3. Oedipal complexities Mark Golden 4. Callirhoe's dilemma: remarriage and stepfathers in the Greco-Roman East Sabine R. Hubner 5. "Without father, without mother, without genealogy": fatherlessness in the Old and New Testaments Marcus Sigismund PART II. VIRTUAL FATHERLESSNESS 6. Bastardy and fatherlessness in ancient Greece Daniel Ogden 7. Fatherlessness and formal identification in Roman Egypt Myrto Malouta PART III. ROLES WITHOUT MODELS 8. Diomedes, the fatherless hero of the Iliad Louise Pratt 9. Sons (and daughters) without fathers: fatherlessness in the Homeric epics Georg Wöhrle 10. Absent Roman fathers in the writings of their daughters: Cornelia and Sulpicia Judith P. Hallett PART IV. RHETORIC OF LOSS 11. The disadvantages and advantages of being fatherless: the case of Sulla Sabine Müller 12. An imperial family man: Augustus as surrogate father to Marcus Antonius' children Ann-Cathrin Harders 13. Cui parens non erat maximus quisque et uetustissimus pro parente: paternal surrogates in imperial Roman literature Neil Bernstein 14. The education of orphans: a reassessment of the evidence of Libanius Raffaella Cribiore 15. "Woe to those making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless": Christian ideals and the obligations of stepfathers in late antiquity Geoffrey Nathan. ISBN 9780521490504 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 693.

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - As the changes in the traditional family accelerated toward the end of the twentieth century, a great deal of attention came to focus on fathers, both modern and ancient. While academics and politicians alike singled out the conspicuous and growing absence of the modern father as a crucial factor affecting contemporary family and social dynamics, ancient historians and classicists have rarely explored ancient father-absence, despite the likelihood that nearly a third of all children in the ancient Mediterranean world were fatherless before they turned fifteen. The proportion of children raised by single mothers, relatives, step-parents, or others was thus at least as high in antiquity as it is today. This book assesses the wide-ranging impact high levels of chronic father-absence had on the cultures, politics, and families of the ancient world.