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With the help of a wide variety of source material, particularly legal documents and inscriptions, some of it made available for the first time in English, this book illustrates the activities associated with the household, demonstrating the different and frequently conflicting roles and moral values expected from its various members: male and female, old and young, freedman and slave.
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INDEX
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This index includes references to passages from ancient sources mentioned in the text, but not those excerpts already listed in the Index of Passages Cited. Where persons had several names, they are listed by the one by which they are usually designated (e.g., M. Tullius Cicero under āCā).
abbot, 11, 28, 84
abortion, 98, 149
account books, accounts (rationes), 7, 12, 19, 73, 79, 80, 135, 136, 147, ill.7
Aconia Fabia Paulina (epitaph), 66f.
actuarius (records clerk), 7
adoption, 3, 6, 20 n.1, 33, 43,103 n.1, 128
adult toga, 108, 111, 169
adultery, 19, 21, 58
Aebutia, 127
Aelia Tryphera (epitaph), 53
Aeturnia Zotica (epitaph), 100
agents, see institores, 75
agnates, 3, 4, 50, 52 n.2
M. Agrippa, 20 n.1, 102
Agrippina the Elder, 98, 102
Agrippina the Younger, 107
Alexander Severus (emperor ad 222ā35), 124, 156, 158
Alfenus (jurist), Digest (35, 1.28.1), 70
Alieni (epitaph of), 107
alimentary schemes, 88f., 93, 180
Alimma (epitaph), 66
alumni (āNurselingsā), 3, 42, 105, 160
Amalswintha (d. ad 535), 115
amicus, amicitiae, see friendships
Amymone (epitaph), 52
Ancharia Luperca, 179
annuities, annual allowances, 15, 140, 141
Antoninus Pius (emperor ad 138ā61), 60, 61, 151
Aosta, 63
Apuleius, Defence, (ch. 47), 8
Attia Viriola, 122
Atticus, 10, 55, 70
Augustus Caesar, 14, 19, 31, 39, 43, 57, 86, 96, 97, 98, 102, 140, ...
Table of contents
- Cover
- THE ROMAN HOUSEHOLD
- Full Title
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- INTRODUCTION
- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
- I Composition and definition
- II The household as focus of emotion
- III Ideals and anxieties
- IV The economics of the Roman household
- V The life-cycle
- VI Inheritance
- VII Manumission and freedmen
- VIII Patronage and friendship
- Index of passages cited
- Select bibliography
- Index