Youth in the Roman Empire: The Young and the Restless Years?

Modern society has a negative view of youth as a period of storm and stress, but at the same time cherishes the idea of eternal youth. How does this compare with ancient Roman society? Did a phase of youth exist there with its own characteristics? How was youth appreciated? This book studies the lives and the image of youngsters (around 15-25 years of age) in the Latin West and the Greek East in the Roman period. Boys and girls of all social classes come to the fore; their lives, public and private, are sketched with the help of a range of textual and documentary sources, while the authors also employ the results of recent neuropsychological research. The result is a highly readable and wide-ranging account of how the crucial transition between childhood and adulthood operated in the Roman world.

• | Author: Christian Laes, Johan Strubbe
• | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• | Publication Date: Mar 23, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 280 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/History
• | ISBN-10: 1107626722
• | ISBN-13: 9781107626720