The Roman Household: A Sourcebook - Hardcover

Gardner, Jane

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415044219 ISBN 13: 9780415044219

Publisher: Routledge, 1991

Synopsis

Newly translated excerpts--some of which are available in English for the first time--are taken from a wide range of Latin prose and verse literature, ethical and agricultural handbooks and codes, legal texts, inscriptions, and other epigraphical material from the second century B. C. to the sixth century A. D. Taken together, they constitute an indispensible resource for the study of Roman domestic and social history, providing an intimate glimpse inside the Roman household.

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About the Author

Jane F. Gardner is a Senior Lecturer in Classics at Reading University. Thomas Wiedemann is a Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at Bristol University. He is the author of Greek and Roman Slavery (Routledge, 1989).

Review

". . . Jane Gardner and Thomas Wiedemann are to be congratulated for having compiled a sourcebook that will allow students to be directly exposed to many of the topics that have preoccupied family historians over the last decade or so, a teaching resource that instructors will come to value as essential." -- Plutarchos

"As with slavery, that other fundamental institution of the Roman World, materials on family and household are maddeningly diffuse, fragmented, and therefore rather difficult to find and use. That a good selection of the primary source materials on Roman households has been assembled, and that new translations have been provided for these sources, should be gratefully accepted as a considerable boon to teachers and students and alike." -- Brent D. Shaw, Classical Views

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0415044219
• ISBN 13: 9780415044219
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 210