Families in the Greco-Roman World

Agneta Stromberg is a senior lecturer in ancient history at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Ray Laurence is Professor of Classical and Archaeological Studies at the University of Kent, UK. He is the author of many titles including Pompeii The Living City (with Alex Butterworth) which was awarded the Longman-History Today New Generation Prize 2006.

• 1. The Ancient Family in the 21st Century - Stromberg and Laurence; 2. Beyond Domus and Oikos: Kinship Studies and the Ancient Family - Harders; 3. Taking a Wider View: Greco-Roman Families and Political Demography - Hin; 4. The Classical Oikos as a Site for Intersectionality - Sjoberg; 5. Depictions of Women and Children in pre-Classical Corinth - Avramidou; 6. The Concept of Kyreia in Classical Athens - Hartmann; 7. Family Dynamics and the Seleucid Dynasty - Coloru; 8. Not the Oikos: Priesthoods and Succession in Classical Athens - Bubelis; 9. Woman as the Pillar of the Family in Greek Funerary Epigrams - Kotlinska-Toma; 10. Family Relationships in Iron Age and Early Roman Veneto - Perego; 11. Etruscan Families: The Dead and the Living; 12. Family Advisory Councils in the Roman Republic - Johnston; 13. Female Workers in Aristocratic Columbaria - Penner; 14. Pompeian Painting and Domestic Emotions - Kampen; 15. Children in Antiquity in the 21st Century - Golden.