Despite the developing emphasis in current scholarship on children in Roman culture, there
has been relatively little research to date on the role and significance of the youngest …

It is commonly estimated that in Roman, as in other pre-industrial societies, 50% or so of
individuals born were unlikely to reach maturity (Chamberlain 1997, p. 249). Under the in …

It can be difficult to hear the voices of Roman children, women and slaves, given that most
surviving texts of the period are by elite adult men. This volume redresses the balance. An …

There is little evidence to enable us to reconstruct what it felt like to be a child in the Roman
world. We do, however, have ample evidence about the feelings and expectations that …

From birth to adulthood Roman children became socialized; that is, they internalized social
and cultural processes and structures so that they could take up their roles as adults, who …

In classical antiquity, as in most traditional societies, very young children, especially
newborn babies, were subject to specific rituals associated with their particular liminal …

Roman children often seem to be absent from the ancient sources. How did they spend their
first years of life? Did they manage to find their way among the various educators, often …

The burial treatment of infants in Roman Britain has received considerable attention from
archaeologists over the last two decades2. Large numbers of perinatal and infant remains …

Long believed to be a transitional time that left no trace, birth and early childhood have
recently emerged as a new field of research. Interdisciplinary approaches have …

Modern studies have analysed the role of children in various societies and have thus drawn
conclusions about economic conditions, value systems and levels of sophistication and …