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GROWING UP AND GROWING OLD

IN ANCIENT ROME

Throughout history, every culture has had its own ideas on what growing up

and growing old means, with variations between chronological, biological

and social ageing, and with different emphases on the critical stages and

transitions from birth to death.

This volume is the first to highlight the role of age in determining

behaviour, and expectations of behaviour, across the life span of an inhabitant

of ancient Rome. Drawing on developments in the social sciences, as well as

ancient evidence, the authors focus on the period c .200 BC – AD 200, looking at

childhood, the transition to adulthood, maturity, and old age. They explore

how both the individual and society were involved in, and reacted to, these

different stages, in terms of gender, wealth and status, and personal choice

and empowerment.

Original, lively and accessible, this study opens up the subject of age and

the Roman life course in a way that is tangible to the reader, and which

includes and draws on current controversies and debates in ancient history. It

will be important for anyone studying Roman life.

Mary Harlow is a lecturer in Roman history at the University of

Birmingham, where she holds a Leverhulme Special Research Fellowship

(2000/2001). Her research interests include gender, the Roman family and

dress in late antiquity. She is also an associate lecturer with the Open

University.

Ray Laurence is a lecturer in Roman history and archaeology at the

University of Reading. His previous books include Roman Pompeii: Space and

Society (Routledge 1994), and The Roads of Roman Italy: Mobility and Cultural

Change (Routledge 1999). He is also co-editor of Cultural Identity in the Roman

Empire (Routledge 1998, pb 2001) and Travel and Geography in the Roman

Empire (Routledge 2001).

GROWING UP AND

GROWING OLD IN

ANCIENT ROME

A life course approach

Mary Harlow and Ray Laurence

London and New York

First published 2002

by Routlege

11 New Fetter Lane, London EC4P 4EE

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada

by Routledge

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utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Harlow, Mary, 1956–

Growing up and growing old in Ancient Rome: a life course approach/

Mary Harlow and Ray Laurence.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Developmental psychology–Rome. 2. Rome–History–Republic, 265-30 B.C. 3.

Rome–History–Empire, 30 B.C.-284 A.D. I. Laurence, Ray, 1963-II. Title.

BF713.H366 2002

305.2'0937–dc21

2001040368

ISBN 0-203-45762-5 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN 0-203-76586-9 (Adobe eReader Format)

ISBN 0-415-20201-9 (pbk)

ISBN 0-415-20200-0 (hbk)

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