Children, Memory, and Family Identity in Roman Culture

Investigations into the daily life of Roman families show that children were key actors in the process of the construction of social memory: they were the pivotal point of the transmission of family tradition and values in both elite and non-elite familie

Veronique Dasen is Professor of Classical Archaeology, University of Fribourg

Thomas Spath is Professor of Ancient Cultures and Constructions of Antiquity, University of Bern

Introduction, Veronique Dasen and Thomas Spath
I. Family Identities and Traditions
1. Ancestors as Models: Memory and the Construction of Gentilician Identity, Catherine Baroin
2. Roman Patchwork Families: Surrogate Parenting, Socialization and the Shaping of Tradition, Ann-Cathrin Harders
3. Children and the Transmission of Religious Knowledge, Francesca Prescendi
4. Women and Children in Ancient Landscape, Michel E. Fuchs
5. Wax and Plaster Memories: Children in Elite and Non-Elite Strategies, Veronique Dasen
6. Cicero, Tullia, and Marcus: Gender-Specific Concerns for Family Tradition?, Thomas Spath
7. Children and the Memory of Parents in the Late Roman World, Ville Vuolanto
II. Children on the Margins?
8. Degrees of Freedom, Vernae and Junian Latins in the Roman Familia, Beryl Rawson
9. Modestia vs licentia: Seneca on Childhood and Status in the Roman Family, Francesca Mencacci
10. Delicia-Children Revisited: The Evidence of Statius' Silvae, Christian Laes
11. The Sick Child in his Family: A Risk for the Family Tradition, Danielle Gourevitch
12. Hidden in Plain Sight: Expositi in the Community, Judith Evans Grubbs
13. Rome: The Invisible Children of Incest, Philippe Moreau