Volume 37, Number 16 · October 25, 1990
Ancient Kids
By Jasper Griffin
Children and Childhood in Classical Athens
by Mark Golden
Johns Hopkins University Press, 268 pp., $28.95
Adults and Children in the Roman Empire
by Thomas Wiedemann
Yale University Press, 221 pp., $27.50
Historians of the ancient world are extending their range of interests; or, at least, transferring it. The succession of emperors and the narration of political and military events have long lost their primacy. When a recent popular work on Greece and Rome was being compiled, it was with difficulty that the editors could induce the historical contributors not to omit any narrative of the events of the year 480 BCE (Persian invasion of Greece), the conquests of Alexander the Great, and Caesar's conquest of Gaul. The history of nutrition, of disease, of trading relationships; or the more exciting histories of death, of women, of children: these flood in to fill the gap.
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