The Roman family in the empire : Rome, Italy, and beyond / / edited by Michele George.

• Author: E. Togo Salmon Conference McMaster University)
• TeilnehmendeR: George, Michele.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xx, 358 p. :; ill., map.
• Notes: "Most papers in this volume were given at the Fourth E.T. Salmon Conference in Roman Studies held at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada, in September 2001"--Pref.

Table of Contents

Putting the family across : Cicero on natural affection / Susan Treggiari -- Family imagery and family values in Roman Italy / Michele George -- The Roman child in sickness and in health / Keith Bradley -- Parent-child conflict in the Roman family : the evidence of the Code of Justinian / Judith Evans Grubbs -- Searching for the Romano-Egyptian family / Richard Alston -- The Jewish family in Judaea from Pompey to Hadrian--the limits of romanization / Margaret Williams -- Family relations in Roman Lusitania : social change in a Roman province? / Jonathan Edmondson -- Family history in the Roman north-west / Greg Woolf -- Family and kinship in Roman Africa / Mireille Corbier -- Children and parents on the tombstones of Pannonia / Mary T. Boatwright.