Adults and Children in the Roman Empire (Routledge Revivals)

Adults and Children in the Roman Empire describes a range of attitudes towards children in the classical period, identifying three areas where greater individuality was assigned to children: through political office-holding; through education; and, for Christians, through membership of the Church in baptism. First published in 1989, this study is valuable not only to classicists, but also to anthropologists and those interested in ecclesiastical and social history.