The Roman Family
Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. Soft cover. 8vo. Fine. Item #006780
Soft cover. 279 pp. Eighteen pages B&W photos in text. Slight sunning to head of rear cover, else fine. Unfaithful spouses, divorce and remarriage, rebellious children, aging parents - today's headlines are filled with issues said to be responsible for a "breakdown" of the traditional family. But are any of these problems truly new? What can we learn from the ways in which societies dealt with them in the past? Suzanne Dixon sets the current debate about the faily against a broader context in The Roman Family, the first book to bring together what historians, anthropologists, and philologists have learned about the family in ancient Rome.
Price: $30.00