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1 online resource (xvi, 303 pages) : illustrations |
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Routledge monographs in classical studies |
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Routledge monographs in classical studies.
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| Contents |
Cover; CHILDHOOD IN ANCIENT ATHENS: Iconography and Social History; Copyright; CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; Part I INTRODUCTION, DEFINITIONS AND METHODOLOGY; 1 FRAMING THE CONTEXT; 1.1 Scholarship on ancient Greek children and childhood; 1.2 The emergence of the 'history of childhood'; 1.3 Towards an archaeology of childhood; 1.4 Scope and aims of the present work; 2 ATHENIAN DEFINITIONS OF CHILDREN AND CHILDHOOD, AND THE ICONOGRAPHY OF AGE; 2.1 Age and the stages of childhood in Athens; 2.2 Iconographical indicators of age |
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2.3 The stages of childhood in Athenian figured artPart II THE JUVENILE LIFE COURSE; 3 BIRTH AND INFANCY; 3.1 Birth; 3.2 Nurture; 3.3 Cult and ritual; 3.4 Death; 4 THE DEVELOPING CHILD; 4.1 Nurture; 4.2 Work; 4.3 Play; 4.4 Education; 4.5 Cult and ritual; 4.6 Death; 5 CONCLUSION; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX |
| Summary |
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 childhoo |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Children -- Greece -- Athens -- History
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Children in art.
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Art, Greek.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Children's Studies.
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Art, Greek
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Children
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Children in art
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Manners and customs
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Social conditions
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Athens (Greece) -- Social conditions
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Athens (Greece) -- Social life and customs
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Greece -- Social conditions -- To 146 B.C.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057129
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| Subject |
Greece
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Greece -- Athens
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1136486704 |
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9781136486708 |
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9780203136256 |
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020313625X |
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9781283972420 |
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1283972425 |
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9781136486654 |
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1136486658 |
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9781136486692 |
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1136486690 |
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9781138926707 |
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1138926701 |
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