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Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of tables -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction: approaches to the history of the Roman family -- Part I Roman life course and kinship: biology and culture -- 2 Roman patterns of death, marriage and birth -- Mortality -- Ages at first marriage -- Fertility -- 3 Sfmulation of Roman family and kinship -- Comparison of the microsimulation output and the household census data from roman egypt -- Part II Roman family and culture: definitions and norms -- 4 Familia and domus: defining and representing the Roman family and household -- Familia -- Domus -- Domus" as symbol of status and family -- Conclusion: representing household and family after death -- 5 Pietas and patria potestas: obligation and power in the Roman household -- Pietas -- Potestas -- Conclusion -- 6 Whips and words: discipline and punishment in the Roman household -- The meaning of corporal punishment -- Verbera " in the public sphere -- The whip and discipline in the household -- Conclusion -- Part III The devolution of property in the Roman family -- 7 Strategies of succession in Roman families -- The roman law of succession -- Goals and strategies -- Conclusion -- 8 Guardianship of Roman children -- The legal background -- The demographic background -- Tutela in roman morality and literature -- Law and practice -- Tutela in its social and economic context -- 9 Dowries and daughters in Rome -- A few comparisons -- Legal rules and purposes of dowry -- Customs and practices: functions and strategies -- Conclusion -- 10 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index

"In this, the first comprehensive one-volume survey of the economies of classical antiquity, twenty-eight chapters summarise the current state of scholarship in their specialised fields and sketch new directions for research. The approach taken is both thematic, with chapters on the underlying determinants of economic performance, and chronological, with coverage of the whole of the Greek and Roman worlds extending from the Aegean Bronze Age to Late Antiquity. The contributors move beyond the substantivist-formalist debates that dominated twentieth-century scholarship and display a new interest in economic growth in antiquity. New methods for measuring economic development are explored, often combining textual and archaeological data that have previously been treated separately. Fully accessible to non-specialist, the volume represents a major advance in our understanding of the economic expansion that made the civilisation of the classical Mediterranean world possible."--Publisher's website

In this, the first comprehensive one-volume survey of the economies of classical antiquity, twenty-eight chapters summarise the current state of scholarship in their specialised fields and sketch new directions for research. The approach taken is both thematic, with chapters on the underlying determinants of economic performance, and chronological, with coverage of the whole of the Greek and Roman worlds extending from the Aegean Bronze Age to Late Antiquity. The contributors move beyond the substantivist-formalist debates that dominated twentieth-century scholarship and display a new interest in economic growth in antiquity. New methods for measuring economic development are developed, often combining textual and archaeological data that have previously been treated separately. This important work represents a major advance in our understanding of the economic expansion that made the civilisation of the classical Mediterranean world possible.