| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 333 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction. Fatherless antiquity? Perspectives on "fatherlessness" in the ancient Mediterranean / Sabine R. Hübner and David M. Ratzan -- pt. 1. Coping with demographic realities. The demographic background / Walter Scheidel -- Oedipal complexes / Mark Golden -- Callirhoe's dilemma: remarriage and stepfathers in the Greco-Roman East / Sabine R. Hübner -- "Without father, without mother, without genealogy": fatherlessness in the Old and New Testaments / Marcus Sigismund -- pt. 2. Virtual fatherlessness. Bastardy and fatherlessness in ancient Greece / Daniel Ogden -- Fatherlessness and formal identification in Roman Egypt / Myrto Malouta -- pt. 3. Roles without models. Diomedes, the fatherless hero of the Iliad / Louise Pratt -- Sons (and daughters) without father: fatherlessness in the Homeric epics / Georg Wöhrle -- Absent Roman fathers in the writings of their daughters: Cornelia and Sulpicia / Judith P. Hallett -- pt. 4. Rhetoric of loss. The disadvantages and advantages of being fatherless: the case of Sulla / Sabine Müller -- An imperial family man: Augustus as surrogate father to Marcus Antonius' children / Ann-Cathrin Harders -- Cui parens non erat maximus quisque et vetustissimus pro parente: paternal surrogates in imperial Roman literature / Neil W. bernstein -- The education of orphans: a reassessment of the evidence of Libanius / Raffaella Cribiore -- "Woe to those making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless": Christian ideals and the obligations of stepfathers in late antiquity / Geoffrey Nathan |
| Summary |
This title investigates the effects of fatherlessness on the societies, cultures, politics and families of the ancient Mediterranean world |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-325) and index |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Fatherless families -- History -- To 1500
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Civilization, Ancient -- Social aspects
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Civilization, Greco-Roman -- Social aspects
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Fathers in literature.
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Greek World -- history
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History, Ancient
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Roman World -- history
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Alternative Family.
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Reference.
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Fatherless families
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Fathers in literature
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Kind
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Vaterentbehrung
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Griechenland Altertum
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Römisches Reich
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Griechenland (Altertum)
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hübner, Sabine R
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Ratzan, David M
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| ISBN |
9780511508226 |
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0511508220 |
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9780521490504 |
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