Growing Up Fatherless in Antiquity
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- Sabine R. Hübner, Columbia University, New York
- David M. Ratzan, Columbia University, New York
- Date Published: December 2011
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107404069
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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.
Read more- Gives the reader a cross-cultural overview on the problem of growing up fatherless in ancient and modern societies
- Contains invaluable demographic information
- Essays drawn from a wide range of periods, regions and cultures establish a useful socio-historical context for the reader
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“Uniformly excellent…………. The chapters in this book are very effective reminders of the lasting emotional distress of growing up without a father......... this book represents a welcome attempt to supplement demographic studies of ancient families with investigations of specific situations involving historical actors and literary characters.” --AHB Online Review
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- Date Published: December 2011
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107404069
- length: 350 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 19 mm
- weight: 0.47kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Note on abbreviations
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 Graeco-Roman east Sabine R. Hübner
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: parental surrogates in imperial Roman literature Neil W.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
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