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The Roman Family
Suzanne Dixon
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Description for The Roman Family
Paperback. Series: Ancient Society and History. Num Pages: 296 pages, 20ill. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBTB; JHBK; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate; (XO) Open University set text. Dimension: 213 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 352.
Unfaithful spouses, divorce and remarriage, rebellious children, aging parents--today's headlines are filled with issues said to be responsible for a breakdown of the traditional family. But are any of these problems truly new? What can we learn from the ways in which societies dealt with them in the past? Suzanne Dixon sets the current debate about the family against a broader context in The Roman Family, the first book to bring together what historians, anthropologists, and philologists have learned about the family in ancient Rome. Dixon begins by reviewing the controversies regarding the family in general and the ... Read more
Unfaithful spouses, divorce and remarriage, rebellious children, aging parents--today's headlines are filled with issues said to be responsible for a breakdown of the traditional family. But are any of these problems truly new? What can we learn from the ways in which societies dealt with them in the past? Suzanne Dixon sets the current debate about the family against a broader context in The Roman Family, the first book to bring together what historians, anthropologists, and philologists have learned about the family in ancient Rome. Dixon begins by reviewing the controversies regarding the family in general and the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Number of pages
296
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Series
Ancient Society and History
Condition
New
Weight
352g
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801842009
SKU
V9780801842009
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Reviews for The Roman Family
One of the very best volumes in the Ancient Society and History series... The material is well presented and skillfully analyzed so as to expose the 'true' rather than the theoretical.
Greece and Rome.
Greece and Rome.