Companion to Families in the Greek and Roman World

List of Illustrations. List of Tables. Notes on Contributors. Acknowledgments. Introduction: Families in the Greek and Roman Worlds (Beryl Rawson, Australian National University) . Part I: Houses and Households:. 1. Family and Household, Ancient History and Archeology: A Case Study from Roman Egypt (Lisa Nevett, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) . 2. Space and Social Relationships in the Greek Oikos of the Classical and Hellenistic Periods (Monika Trumper, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) . 3. Space and Social Relations in the Roman West (Jens-Arne Dickmann, Heidelberg University) . 4. Household Composition in the Ancient Mediterranean - What Do We Really Know? (Sabine R. Huebner, Columbia University) . 5. The Royal Families of Argead Macedon and the Hellenistic World (Daniel Ogden, University of Exeter and University of South Africa) . 6. Monogamy and Polygyny (Walter Scheidel, Stanford University) . 7. The Roman Family as Productive Unit (Richard Saller, Stanford University) . 8. The Families of Roman Slaves and Freedmen (Henrik Mouritsen, King's College London) . 9. Foreign Families in Roman Italy (David Noy, University of Wales and Open University) . 10. Soldiers' Families in the Early Roman Empire (Penelope Allison, University of Leicester) . 11. The Household as a Venue for Religious Conversion: The Case of Christianity (Kate Cooper, University of Manchester) . 12. What We Do and Don't Know About Early Christian Families (Carolyn Osiek, Texas Christian University, now retired) . Part II: Kinship, Marriage, Parents, and Children:. 13. Consubstantiality, Incest, and Kinship in Ancient Greece (Jerome Wilgaux, Nantes University) . 14. Marriage in Ancient Athens (Cheryl A. Cox, University of Memphis) . 15. From Ceremonial to Sexualities: A Survey of Scholarship on Roman Marriage (Suzanne Dixon, University of Queensland) . 16. Other People's Children (Mark Golden, University of Winnipeg). 17. The Roman Life Course and the Family (Tim Parkin, University of Manchester) . 18. Childbirth and Infancy in Greek and Roman Antiquity (Veronique Dasen, University of Fribourg) . 19. Grieving for Lost Children, Pagan and Christian (Christian Laes, University of Antwerp and Free University of Brussels) . Part III: The Legal Side:. 20. Greek Law and the Family (Eva Cantarella, University of Milan) . 21. Adoption and Heirship in Greece and Rome (Hugh Lindsay, University of Newcastle) . 22. Roman "Horror" of Intestacy? (Jane F. Gardner, University of Reading) . 23. Promoting pietas through Roman Law (Judith Evans Grubbs, Emory University) . Part IV: City and Country:. 24. Greek Cities and Families (Sara Saba, Kommission fur alte Geschichte und Epigraphik, Munich) . 25. A Walk with the Dead: A Funerary Cityscape of Ancient Rome (Christopher Johanson, University of California, Los Angeles) . 26. The Family and the Roman Countryside (Stephen L. Dyson, University at Buffalo) . Part V: Ritual, Commemoration, Values:. 27. Families and Religion in Classical Greece (Janett E. Morgan, Royal Holloway, University of London) . 28. Picturing Greek Families (Ada Cohen, Dartmouth College) . 29. Celebrating the Saturnalia: Religious Ritual and Roman Domestic Life (Fanny Dolansky, Brock University) . 30. Ethos : The Socialization of Children in Education and Beyond (Teresa Morgan, University of Oxford) . 31. Picturing the Roman Family (Janet Huskinson, Open University) . 32. Devotional Visuality in Family Funerary Monuments in the Roman World (Janet H. Tulloch, Carleton University) . Glossary. References. Index.