The Oxford Handbook Of Childhood And Education In The Classical World

About “The Oxford Handbook Of Childhood And Education In The Classical World”

The Oxford Handbook of Childhood and Education in the Classical World is a 30-chapter academic book published in 2013. It presents current research on ancient childhood, covering a wide range of topics and sub-disciplines such as archaeology and ancient medicine. The contributors include leading scholars and emerging researchers in the field. Unlike other collections on childhood or family in antiquity, this book also examines the late antique period and how Christian beliefs may have influenced ideas about childhood. The book spans from archaic Greece to the later Roman Empire, up to the fifth century C.E., and includes perspectives from the eastern Mediterranean, as well as classical Greece and Roman Italy.