Youth in the Roman Empire (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781107048881)

Modern society has a negative view of youth as a period of storm and stress, but at the same time cherishes the idea of eternal youth. How does this compare with ancient Roman society? Did a phase of youth exist there with its own characteristics? How was youth appreciated? This book studies the lives and the image of youngsters (around 15-25 years of age) in the Latin West and the Greek East in the Roman period. Boys and girls of all social classes come to the fore; their lives, public and private, are sketched with the help of a range of textual and documentary sources, while the authors also employ the results of recent neuropsychological research. The result is a highly readable and wide-ranging account of how the crucial transition between childhood and adulthood operated in the Roman world.

Author: Christian Laes,Johan Strubbe
ISBN-10: 1107048885
ISBN-13: 9781107048881
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/12/2014
Pages: 277
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.10h x 5.90w x 0.90d