Table of Contents

Contributors
Abbreviations

INTRODUCTION
Judith Evans Grubbs and Tim Parkin

PART I. GESTATION, BIRTH, DISEASE, AND DEATH
1. Becoming Human: from the Embryo to the Newborn Child
Véronique Dasen

2. The Demography of Infancy and Early Childhood in the Ancient World
Tim Parkin

3. Babies in the Well: Archaeological Evidence for Newborn Disposal in Hellenistic Greece
Maria Liston and Susan Rotroff

4. (Not) Bringing up Baby: Infant Exposure and Infanticide
Judith Evans Grubbs

5. The child patient of the Hippocratics: early Pediatrics?
Lesley Dean-Jones

6. Raising a Disabled Child
Christian Laes

PART II. CHILDREN AND CHILDHOOD IN ANCIENT GREECE
7. Children in Archaic and Classical Greek art: A Survey
John Oakley

8. Children as Learners and Producers in Early Greece
Susan Langdon

9. Shifting Gender: Age and Social Status as Modifiers of Childhood Gender in Ancient Athens
Lesley Beaumont

10. Children in Athenian Religion
Robert Garland

11. Play, Pathos and Precocity: The Three "P"s of Greek Literary Childhood
Louise Pratt

PART III. CHILDREN AND CHILDHOOD IN ANCIENT ROME
12. Children in Latin Epic
Mark Golden

13. The Socialization of Roman Children
Janette McWilliam

14. Slave and Lower-class Roman Children
Hanne Sigismund Nielsen

15. Children and Childhood in Roman Commemorative Art
Lena Larsson Lovén

16. Toys, Dolls and the Material Culture of Childhood
Mary Harlow

17. Roman Children and the Law
Thomas A.J. McGinn

PART IV. EDUCATION AND EDUCATIONAL PHILOSOPHY IN THE CLASSICAL WORLD
18. Education in Plato's Laws
Cynthia Patterson

19. Boys, Girls, Family, and the State at Sparta
Nigel Kennell

20. Engendering the Scroll: Girls' and Women's Literacy in Classical Greece
Matthew Dillon

21. Educating the Youth: the Athenian ephebeia in the Early Hellenistic Era
Eric Casey

22. The Ancient Child in School
Martin Bloomer

PART V. CHILDREN IN THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN
23. Children in Hellenistic Egypt: What the Papyri Say
Maryline Parca

24. Children in Roman Egypt
April Pudsey

25. Adoption and Fosterage in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean
Sabine Huebner

26. Pictorial paideia: Children in the Synagogue
Hagith Sivan

PART VI. LATE ANTIQUITY AND EARLY CHRISTIANITY
27. Children and "the Child" in early Christianity
Blake Leyerle

28. Elite Children, Socialization and Agency in the Late Roman world
Ville Vuolanto

29. Remembering Children in the Roman Catacombs
Jenny Kreiger

30. Stages of Infancy in Roman Amphora Burial
Susan Stevens

EVNOI
Keith Bradley

Index

About the Author

Judith Evans Grubbs is Betty Gage Holland Professor of Roman History at Emory University.

Tim Parkin is Professor of Ancient History at University of Manchester.

Reviews

succeeds in making children visible and in giving a fascinating picture of ancient childhood, offering indeed an embarras de richesses. It repays reading and rereading.
*Inga Mantle, Classics for All*