The Roman Family in Italy: Status, Sentiment, Space(OUP/Humanities Research Centre of the Australian National Un)

Series: OUP/Humanities Research Centre of the Australian National Un

The Roman family is a key concept in the understanding of Roman society at all levels, from the aristocratic elite to slaves. The intertwined themes of status, sentiment, and space, with the use of many types of evidence, from the legal and literary to the iconographical and archaeological, enable the contributors to this book to set out new insights into the family life of the people of Roman Ita