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Childhood in Ancient Athens: Iconography and Social History (Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies)

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Childhood in Ancient Athens offers an in-depth study of children all over the heyday of the Athenian city state, thereby illuminating a significant social group in large part ignored by most ancient and brand new authors alike. It concentrates not only at the child’s own experience, but also examines the perceptions of children and childhood by Athenian society: these perceptions variously exhibit both similarities and stark contrasts with those of our own 21st century Western society. The study covers the juvenile life course from birth and infancy through early and later childhood, and treats these life stages in step with the topics of nurture, play, education, work, cult and ritual, and death. 

In view of the scant ancient Greek literary evidence pertaining to childhood, Beaumont makes a speciality of the more copious ancient visual representations of children in Athenian pot painting, sculpture, and terracotta modelling. Notably, that is the first full-length monograph in English to address the iconography of childhood in ancient Athens, and it breaks essential new ground by rigorously analysing and evaluating classical art to reconstruct childhood’s social history. With over 120 illustrations, the book provides a wealthy visual, in addition to narrative, resource for the history of childhood in classical antiquity.


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