Growing Up Fatherless in Antiquity

GROWING UP FATHERLESS IN ANTIQUITY......Page 3
Contents......Page 6
Figures......Page 9
Tables......Page 10
Contributors......Page 11
Acknowledgments......Page 14
Note on abbreviations......Page 15
Introduction......Page 16
1. Fatherless antiquity? Perspectives on \"fatherlessness\" in the ancient Mediterranean (Sabine R. Hübner and David M. Ratzan)......Page 17
PART I. Coping with demographic realities......Page 43
2. The demographic background (Walter Scheidel)......Page 44
3. Oedipal complexities (Mark Golden)......Page 54
Public provisions for the fatherless......Page 57
Father figures, substitutes, surrogates......Page 59
Effects of fatherlessness......Page 68
Introduction......Page 74
The situation of the orphaned family: widows and their children......Page 75
The \"stepfather\" in the Greco-Roman East......Page 77
Living with a stepfather......Page 91
Conclusion......Page 92
5. \"Without father, without mother, without genealogy\": fatherlessness in the Old and New Testaments (Marcus Sigismund)......Page 96
The Old Testament and Early Jewish Background......Page 98
Fatherlessness in the New Testament......Page 104
Fatherlessness in the New Testament, Fatherlessness today......Page 114
PART II. Virtual fatherlessness......Page 116
6. Bastardy and fatherlessness in ancient Greece (Daniel Ogden)......Page 117
The separation of the bastard from his father in classical Athens......Page 119
Greek mythical projections of bastardy and fatherlessness......Page 126
Conclusion......Page 130
Introduction......Page 132
Data and methodology......Page 133
Gender, age, and status......Page 135
Professions and liturgies......Page 138
Families and household structure......Page 141
Chronological distribution......Page 144
Geographical distribution......Page 147
Conclusion......Page 150
PART III. Roles without models......Page 151
Introduction......Page 152
The uniqueness of Diomedes in the Iliad......Page 154
Diomedes and his father......Page 157
Diomedes and father surrogates?......Page 162
The pitilessness of Diomedes......Page 163
Diomedes and Achilles compared......Page 165
9. Sons (and daughters) without fathers: fatherlessness in the Homeric epics (Georg Wöhrle)......Page 173
10. Absent Roman fathers in the writings of their daughters: Cornelia and Sulpicia (Judith P. Hallett)......Page 186
The writings and fathers of Cornelia and Sulpicia......Page 188
Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus and the letter of Cornelia to Gaius Gracchus......Page 190
The eleven Sulpicia elegies and Servius Sulpicius Rufus......Page 196
Fatherlessness and the writings of Cornelia and Sulpicia......Page 201
PART IV. Rhetoric of loss......Page 203
Sulla: being fatherless in the Commentarii......Page 204
Marius as father-figure: a reassessment......Page 213
Sulla and the birth of a hero......Page 218
Sulla and eastern and Hellenistic role models......Page 221
Conclusion......Page 224
Introduction......Page 226
From Actium to Rome......Page 228
Augustus as avunculus: a role description......Page 234
Augustus as an imperial family man......Page 243
Deviant avunculus - rebellious nepotes......Page 246
Conclusion......Page 248
Introduction: bereavement and self-presentation......Page 250
Crispinus, the young man full of promise......Page 252
Pliny the Younger, the \"anello connettivo\" linking the older generation with the younger......Page 258
Conclusion......Page 265
14. The education of orphans: a reassessment of the evidence of Libanius (Raffaella Cribiore)......Page 266
15. \"Woe to those making widows their prey androbbing the fatherless\": Christian ideals and the obligations of stepfathers in late antiquity (Geolfrey Nathan)......Page 282
Bibliography......Page 302
Index......Page 335