Childhood in Ancient Athens: Iconography and Social History

Cover......Page 1
CHILDHOOD IN ANCIENT ATHENS: Iconography and Social History......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
CONTENTS......Page 6
ILLUSTRATIONS......Page 8
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 14
ABBREVIATIONS......Page 16
Part I INTRODUCTION, DEFINITIONS AND METHODOLOGY......Page 18
  1.1 Scholarship on ancient Greek children and childhood......Page 20
  1.2 The emergence of the ‘history of childhood’......Page 24
  1.3 Towards an archaeology of childhood......Page 26
  1.4 Scope and aims of the present work......Page 28
 2 ATHENIAN DEFINITIONS OF CHILDREN AND CHILDHOOD, AND THE ICONOGRAPHY OF AGE......Page 32
  2.1 Age and the stages of childhood in Athens......Page 34
  2.2 Iconographical indicators of age......Page 41
  2.3 The stages of childhood in Athenian figured art......Page 54
Part II THE JUVENILE LIFE COURSE......Page 60
 3 BIRTH AND INFANCY......Page 62
  3.1 Birth......Page 63
  3.2 Nurture......Page 67
  3.3 Cult and ritual......Page 81
  3.4 Death......Page 103
 4 THE DEVELOPING CHILD......Page 121
  4.1 Nurture......Page 123
  4.2 Work......Page 138
  4.3 Play......Page 145
  4.4 Education......Page 151
  4.5 Cult and ritual......Page 169
  4.6 Death......Page 203
 5 CONCLUSION......Page 224
NOTES......Page 229
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 291
INDEX......Page 314