The Single Life in the Roman and Later Roman World
Title | The Single Life in the Roman and Later Roman World PDF eBook |
Author | Sabine R. Huebner |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 437 |
Release | 2019-02-14 |
Genre | Family & Relationships |
ISBN | 1108470173 |
Explores single men and women in the Roman world, their ways of life and their reasons for remaining unmarried.
Life, Death, and Entertainment in the Roman Empire
Title | Life, Death, and Entertainment in the Roman Empire PDF eBook |
Author | David Stone Potter |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Pages | 372 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Games & Activities |
ISBN | 9780472085682 |
"Life, Death, and Entertainment in the Roman Empire gives those who have a general interest in Roman antiquity a starting point informed by the latest developments in scholarship for understanding the extraordinary range of Roman society. Family structure, gender identity, food supply, religion, and entertainment are all crucial to an understanding of the Roman world. As views of Roman history have broadened in recent decades to encompass a wider range of topics, the need has grown for a single volume that can offer a starting point for all these diverse subjects, for readers of all backgrounds."--Page 4 of cover.
The Single Life in the Roman and Later Roman World
Title | The Single Life in the Roman and Later Roman World PDF eBook |
Author | Sabine R. Huebner |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 437 |
Release | 2019-02-14 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108664717 |
Using a variety of historical sources and methodological approaches, this book presents the first large-scale study of single men and women in the Roman world, from the Roman Republic to Late Antiquity and covering virtually all periods of the ancient Mediterranean. It asks how singleness was defined and for what reasons people might find themselves unmarried. While marriage was generally favoured by philosophers and legislators, with the arguments against largely confined to genres like satire and comedy, the advent of Christianity brought about a more complex range of thinking regarding its desirability. Demographic, archaeological and socio-economic perspectives are considered, and in particular the relationship of singleness to the Roman household and family structures. The volume concludes by introducing a number of comparative perspectives, drawn from the early Islamic world and from other parts of Europe down to and including the nineteenth century, in order to highlight possibilities for the Roman world.
Work and Labour in the Cities of Roman Italy
Title | Work and Labour in the Cities of Roman Italy PDF eBook |
Author | Miriam J. Groen-Vallinga |
Publisher | Liverpool University Press |
Pages | 368 |
Release | 2022-11-17 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1802079211 |
Work and labour are fundamental to an understanding of Roman society. In a world where reliable information was scarce and economic insecurity loomed large, social structures and networks of trust were of paramount importance to the way work was provided and filled in. Taking its cue from New Institutional Economics, this book deals with the wide range of factors shaping work and labour in the cities of Roman Italy under the early empire, from families and familial structures, to labour collectives, slavery, education and apprenticeship. To illuminate the complexity of the market for labour, this monograph offers a new analysis of the occupational inscriptions and reliefs from Roman Italy, placing them in the wider context by means of documentary evidence like apprenticeship contracts, legal sources, and material remains. This synthesis therefore provides a comprehensive analysis of the ancient sources on work and labour in Roman urban society, leading to a novel interpretation of the market for work, and a fuller understanding of the daily lives of nonelite Romans. For some of them, work was indeed a source of pride, whereas for others it was merely a means to an end or a necessity of life.
Beautiful Bodies
Title | Beautiful Bodies PDF eBook |
Author | Uroš Mati? |
Publisher | Oxbow Books |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2022-03-15 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1789257735 |
This book explores the role of material culture in the formation of corporeal aesthetics and beauty ideals in different past societies and thus contributes to the cultural relativization of bodily aesthetics and related gender norms. The volume does not explore beauty for the sake of beauty, but extensively explores how it serves to form and keep gender norms in place. The concept of beauty has been a topic of interest for some time, yet it is only in recent times that archaeologists have begun to approach beauty as a culturally contingent and socially constructed phenomenon. Although archaeologists and ancient historians extensively dealt with gender, they dealt less with it in relation to beauty. The contributions in this volume deal with different intersections of gender and corporeal aesthetics by turning to rich archaeological, textual and iconographic data from ancient Sumer, Aegean Bronze Age, ancient Egypt, ancient Athens, Roman provinces, the Viking world and the Qajar Iran. Beauty thus moves away from a curiosity and surface of the body to an analytic concept for a better understanding of past and present societies.
The Roman World 44 BC–AD 180
Title | The Roman World 44 BC–AD 180 PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Goodman |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 405 |
Release | 2002-04-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1134943857 |
Goodman presents a lucid and balanced picture of the Roman world examining the Roman empire from a variety of perspectives; cultural, political, civic, social and religious.
Being Alone in Antiquity
Title | Being Alone in Antiquity PDF eBook |
Author | Rafał Matuszewski |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 548 |
Release | 2021-11-22 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 3110758113 |
This volume aims to provide an interdisciplinary examination of various facets of being alone in Greco-Roman antiquity. Its focus is on solitude, social isolation and misanthropy, and the differing perceptions and experiences of and varying meanings and connotations attributed to them in the ancient world. Individual chapters examine a range of ancient contexts in which problems of solitude, loneliness, isolation and seclusion arose and were discussed, and in doing so shed light on some of humankind’s fundamental needs, fears and values.