Motherhood and infancies in the Mediterranean in antiquity /

Motherhood and childhood are social and cultural constructions that have their origins in prehistoric times and are visible through Greek and Roman discourses in Antiquity. This volume explores various images of maternity and infancy, and the identification of women and womanhood in prehistoric and...

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Other Authors: Sánchez Romero, Margarita (Editor), Cid López, Rosa María (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxbow Books, 2018.
Series:Childhood in the past monograph series ; v. 7.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Motherhood and infancies : archaeological and historical approaches / Margarita Sánchez Romero and Rosa Ma Cid López
  • 2. The child is dead : decision-making and emigration in Bronze Age Iberia / Paloma González Marcén
  • 3. Learning to be ... : learning and socialisation in ceramic productions during Bronze Age in peninsular southeast Spain / Eva Alarcón García, Juan Jesús Padilla Fernández, Alejandra García García and Luis Arboledas Martínez
  • 4. Beyond biology : the constructed nature of motherhood(s) in ancient Near Eastern sources and studies / Agnès Garcia-Ventura
  • 5. Death in birth : pregnancy, maternal death and funerary practices in the Phoenician and Punic world / Ana Delgado Hervás and Aurora Rivera Hernández
  • 6. Looking after dead infants : the materialisation of care in Sicilian child burials (10th-7th centuries BC) / Meritxell Ferrer
  • 7. Creating beings : relations between children and animals in the Iron Age Western Mediterranean / Mireia López-Bertran
  • 8. Maternities in Iberian societies : from day-to-day life to sacredness / Carmen Rueda Galán, Carmen Rísquez Cuenca and Ana B. Herránz Sánchez
  • 9. Motherhood, gender and identity in the Athenian polis / M. Dolors Molas Font
  • 10. Childhood and motherhood in Ancient Greece : an iconographic look / Susana Reboreda Morillo
  • 11. The (ir)relevance of being a mother : a legal perspective on the relationship between mothers and children in ancient Greece / Laura Pepe
  • 12. The Queen and her children : royal motherhood in Hellenistic Greece / María Dolores Mirón Pérez
  • 13. Mors immatura, childhood and maternal-filial relationships in the carmina epigraphica : case studies from the Iberian Peninsula / Rosa María Cid López
  • 14. Mater civitatis : forms of patronage, charity and foundations for children / Almudena Domínguez-Arranz
  • 15. Mothers and sons in Plutarch's Roman Parallel Lives : Auctoritas and maternal influence during the Roman Republic / Borja Méndez Santiago
  • 16. Seruae, mothers and the mother-child bond in Roman Italy : the analysis of the epigraphic evidence / Carla Rubiera Cancelas
  • 17. On the margins of motherhood : images of the puella docta and the lover-poet in the Latin love elegy / Rosa M® Marina Sáez
  • 18. Childhood and maintenance : legal norms related to education and guardianship of minors, from Antoninus Pius to Justinian / María Isabel Núñez Paz
  • 19. The relationship of Iulia Mamaea and Alexander Severus, a young imperator : a review through literary sources / Pedro David Conesa Navarro
  • 20. Representations of women, motherhood and childhood in Spanish primary school textbooks / Silvia Medina Quintana
  • 21. Women and children omitted in the teaching of history : causes and consequences / Antonia Garcia Luque.