Beryl Rawson is Professor Emerita and Adjunct Professor in Classics at the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. She is the author of The Politics of Friendship: Pompey and Cicero (1978) and Children and Childhood in Roman Italy (2003), and the editor of The Family in Ancient Rome: New Perspectives (1986), Marriage, Divorce and Children in Ancient Rome (1991), and The Roman Family in Italy (with Paul Weaver, 1997).

List of Illustrations viii List of Tables xi Notes on Contributors xii Acknowledgments xvii Introduction: Families in the Greek and Roman Worlds 1Beryl Rawson Part I Houses and Households 13 1 Family and Household, Ancient History and Archeology: A Case Study from Roman Egypt 15Lisa Nevett 2 Space and Social Relationships in the Greek Oikos of the Classical and Hellenistic Periods 32
Monika Trümper 3 Space and Social Relations in the Roman West 53Jens-Arne Dickmann 4 Household Composition in the Ancient Mediterranean - What Do We Really Know? 73
Sabine R. Huebner 5 The Royal Families of Argead Macedon and the Hellenistic World 92
Daniel Ogden 6 Monogamy and Polygyny 108
Walter Scheidel 7 The Roman Family as Productive Unit 116
Richard Saller 8 The Families of Roman Slaves and Freedmen 129
Henrik Mouritsen 9 Foreign Families in Roman Italy 145
David Noy 10 Soldiers' Families in the Early Roman Empire 161
Penelope Allison 11 The Household as a Venue for Religious Conversion: The Case of Christianity 183
Kate Cooper 12 What We Do and Don't Know About Early Christian Families 198Carolyn Osiek Part II Kinship, Marriage, Parents, And Children 215 13 Consubstantiality, Incest, and Kinship in Ancient Greece 217
Jérôme Wilgaux 14 Marriage in Ancient Athens 231
Cheryl A. Cox 15 From Ceremonial to Sexualities: A Survey of Scholarship on Roman Marriage 245
Suzanne Dixon 16 Other People's Children 262
Mark Golden 17 The Roman Life Course and the Family 276
Tim Parkin 18 Childbirth and Infancy in Greek and Roman Antiquity 291
Véronique Dasen 19 Grieving for Lost Children, Pagan and Christian 315
Christian Laes Part III the Legal Side 331 20 Greek Law and the Family 333
Eva Cantarella 21 Adoption and Heirship in Greece and Rome 346
Hugh Lindsay 22 Roman "Horror" of Intestacy? 361
Jane F. Gardner 23 Promoting pietas through Roman Law 377
Judith Evans Grubbs Part IV City and Country 393 24 Greek Cities and Families 395
Sara Saba 25 A Walk with the Dead: A Funerary Cityscape of Ancient Rome 408
Christopher Johanson 26 The Family and the Roman Countryside 431Stephen L. Dyson Part V Ritual, Commemoration, Values 445 27 Families and Religion in Classical Greece 447
Janett E. Morgan 28 Picturing Greek Families 465
Ada Cohen 29 Celebrating the Saturnalia: Religious Ritual and Roman Domestic Life 488
Fanny Dolansky 30 Ethos: The Socialization of Children in Education and Beyond 504
Teresa Morgan 31 Picturing the Roman Family 521
Janet Huskinson 32 Devotional Visuality in Family Funerary Monuments in the Roman World 542Janet H. Tulloch Glossary 564 References 567 Index 624