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Family lives : aspects of life and death in ancient families

Title
Family lives : aspects of life and death in ancient families / edited by Kristine Bøggild Johannsen & Jane Hjarl Petersen.
ISBN
9788763546393
8763546396
Publication
Copenhagen : Museum Tusculanum Press, 2019.
Copyright Notice Date
©2019
Physical Description
341 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, maps, plan, portraits ; 25 cm.
Notes
"The present volume takes as its point of departure a seminar entitled 'Families in the Ancient World' that was arranged by the Danish research network Collegium Hyperboreum on 12-13 November 2015"--Page 7.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 10, 2019
Series
Acta Hyperborea ; 15.
Acta Hyperborea : Danish studies in classical archaeology, 15
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
The farming Oikos as place: reflections on economy, social interaction and gender in Classical Attica / Jens Krasilnikoff
Family disaster on stage: polis orchstration of Greek tragedy / Synnøve des Bouvrie
Terracotta figurines as votive offerings for both the individual and the family / Sanne Hoffmann
The prothesis: a ritualized construction of everyday social space in Ancient Greek society / Birgitta Leppänen Sjöberg
Children in Etruscan funeral iconography: representations of families on urns, sarcophagi and in wall paintings / Anna Sofie S. Ahlén
Human or divine?: a new interpretation of a female image on the lid of Velthur Partunu's sarcophagus / Liv Carøe
Almost invisible: the familes of the marines stationed in Rome / Niels Bargfeldt
Roman freedmen and virtus: constructing masculinity in the public sphere / Lisa Hagelin
Women's music-making in the Roman family context: an expression of social status / Erika Lindgren Liljenstolpe
Defining social power through family: the iconography of imperial siblinghood in 2nd century Rome / Sann Joska
Family matters: family constellations in Palmyrene funerary sculpture / Rubina Raja
A social approach to the sex and age distribution in mummy portraits / Bjare B. Purup
A Roman man's best friend: an exploration of the meaning of a small dog on a funerary monument in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen / Christina Hildebrandt
Painting Roman portraits: colour-coding social and cultural identities / Amalie Skovmøller.
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