Families in the Greco-Roman World

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.Agneta Stromberg is a senior lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

• 1. Introduction: From Oikos to Familia - Looking Forward? - Laurence 2. Beyond Oikos and Domus: Modern Kinship Studies and the Ancient Family - Harders 3. Taking a Wider View: Greco-Roman Families and Political Demography Theory - Hin 4. More Than Just Gender: The Classical Oikos as a Site for Intersectionality - Sjoberg 5. Tracing the Oikos in Pre-Classical Corinth: The Perspective of Iconography - Avramidou 6. The Language of the Oikos and theLanguage of Power in the Seleucid Kingdom - Coloru 7. Inheritance, Priesthoods and Succession in Classical Athens: The Hierophantai of the Eumolpidai - Bubelis 8. Women in the Hellenistic Family: The Evidence of Funerary Epigrams - Kotlinska-Toma 9. Family Relationships in Late Bronze Age, Iron Age and Early Roman Veneto: Preliminary Considerations on the Basis of Osteological Analysis and Epigraphy - Perego 10. Gender, Household Structure and Slavery: Re-interpreting the Aristocratic Columbaria of Early Imperial Rome - Penner 11. Houses, Painting, Family Emotion - Kampen 12. The Future of the Ancient Greek Family - Golden