There is little evidence to enable us to reconstruct what it felt
like to be a child in the Roman world. We do, however, have ample
evidence about the feelings and expectations that adults had for
children over the centuries between the end of the Roman republic
and late antiquity. Thomas Wiedemann draws on this evidence to
describe 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. These developments in both pagan and Christian practices
reflect wider social changes in the Roman world during the first
four centuries of the Christian era. Of obvious value to
classicists, Adults and Children in the Roman Empire, first
published in 1989, is also indispensable for anthropologists, and
well as those interested in ecclesiastical and social history.
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