عنوان

Growing up fatherless in antiquity /

(Number (ISBN

0521490502 (hardback)

(Number (ISBN

9780521490504 (hardback)

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b510582

Title Proper

Growing up fatherless in antiquity /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Sabine R. Hübner and David M. Ratzan

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Cambridge University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2009

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xvi, 333 p. ;

Dimensions

24 cm

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-325) and index

Text of Note

Fatherless antiquity? Perspectives on "fatherlessness" in the ancient Mediterranean / Sabine R. Hübner and David M. Ratzan -- 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 -- Bastardy and fatherlessness in ancient Greece / Daniel Ogden -- Fatherlessness and formal identification in Roman Egypt / Myrto Malouta -- 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 -- 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

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Civilization, Ancient-- Social aspects

Civilization, Greco-Roman-- Social aspects

Fatherless families-- History-- To 1500

Fathers in literature

Greek World-- history-- Mediterranean Region

History, Ancient-- Mediterranean Region

Paternal Deprivation-- Mediterranean Region

Roman World-- history-- Mediterranean Region

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Hübner, Sabine R

Ratzan, David M

Date of Transaction

20090916023410.0

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[Book]

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