The Family in Roman Egypt
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The Family in Roman Egypt

A Comparative Approach to Intergenerational Solidarity and Conflict

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The Family in Roman Egypt

A Comparative Approach to Intergenerational Solidarity and Conflict

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This study captures the dynamics of the everyday family life of the common people in Roman Egypt, a social strata that constituted the vast majority of any pre-modern society but rarely figures in ancient sources or in modern scholarship. The documentary papyri and, above all, the private letters and the census returns provide us with a wealth of information on these people not available for any other region of the ancient Mediterranean. The book discusses such things as family composition and household size, and the differences between urban and rural families, exploring what can be ascribed to cultural patterns, economic considerations and/or individual preferences by setting the family in Roman Egypt into context with other pre-modern societies where families adopted such strategies to deal with similar exigencies of their daily lives.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2013
ISBN
9781107240056
Topic
Historia
Subtopic
Historia antigua

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Preface
  4. Map
  5. Chapter 1 Intergenerational solidarity and family support networks in cross-cultural perspective
  6. Chapter 2 Household structures, marriage patterns, and inheritance strategies
  7. Chapter 3 Balancing benefits and obligations Parental love and filial piety over the life course
  8. Chapter 4 Widowhood, remarriage, and residence patterns
  9. Chapter 5 Growing old in the household
  10. Chapter 6 The patriarchal household and the incoming daughter-in-law
  11. Chapter 7 Childless old age The worst of all fates?
  12. Chapter 8 Conclusions
  13. Bibliography
  14. Index of sources
  15. Index