"Mark Golden has produced a superb book, an important substantive and methodological contribution to the social history of ancient Athens and a model for compar

Childhood in Ancient Athens offers an in-depth study of children during the heyday of the Athenian city state, thereby illuminating a significant social group l

This volume contains 20 papers that explore ancient notions and experiences of childhood around the Mediterranean, from prehistory to late antiquity.

This collection employs a multi-disciplinary approach treating ancient childhood in a holistic manner according to diachronic, regional and thematic perspective

The past thirty years have seen an explosion of interest in Greek and Roman social history, particularly studies of women and the family. Until recently these s