Growing Up Fatherless in Antiquity

by: Hubner, S.R. Ratzan, D.M.

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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 2009 book assesses the wide-ranging impact high levels of chronic father-absence had on the cultures, politics, and families of the ancient world.

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

Growing Up Fatherless in Antiquity

by: Hubner, S.R. Ratzan, D.M.

• ISBN-13: 9780521490504 / 978-0-521-49050-4
• ISBN-03: 0521490502 / 0-521-49050-2
• Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2009

Price: 67,00 EURO

1 copy in stock