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

Author

Lesley A. Beaumont

Published

2019

Language

EN