YOUTH IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE by Christian Laes, Johan Strubbe ( 9781107626720 )

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Title:

YOUTH IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE
THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS YEARS?

By:

Christian Laes, Johan Strubbe

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1107626722

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Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

23 March, 2017

Pages:

280

Translated from:

Dutch; Flemish

Description:

This book examines the lives of Roman boys and girls and explores the possible existence of a separate youth culture.

Synopsis:

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.

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7 b/w illus.

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Cambridge University Press

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