Youth in the Roman empire : the young and the restless years?

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Youth in the Roman empire : the young and the restless years?

Christian Laes, Johan Strubbe

Cambridge University Press, c2014

English ed

  • : pbk

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Jeugd in het Romeinse Rijk : jonge jaren, wilde haren?

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"This English edition 2014"--T.p. verso

Originally published by Davidsfonds in 2008

Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-248) and index

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Description

Modern society has a negative view of youth as a period of storm and stress, but at the same time cherishes the idea of eternal youth. How does this compare with ancient Roman society? Did a phase of youth exist there with its own characteristics? How was youth appreciated? This book studies the lives and the image of youngsters (around 15-25 years of age) in the Latin West and the Greek East in the Roman period. Boys and girls of all social classes come to the fore; their lives, public and private, are sketched with the help of a range of textual and documentary sources, while the authors also employ the results of recent neuropsychological research. The result is a highly readable and wide-ranging account of how the crucial transition between childhood and adulthood operated in the Roman world.

Table of Contents

  • 1. Questioning the concept of youth
  • 2. Minority, majority: youth, divisions of the human life course and Roman law
  • 3. Terminology and characteristics of youth
  • 4. Rites of transition
  • 5. Youth and ancient medicine
  • 6. Youth and education: the rhetor and 'university'
  • 7. Associations of adolescent youths
  • 8. Youthful behaviour
  • 9. Youths in public offices
  • 10. Occupational training
  • 11. Marriage
  • 12. Youth and Christianity: continuity or change?
  • Conclusion.

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