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Coming of Age in Ancient Greece:

Images of Childhood from the Classical Past ; [exhibition Schedule: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 23 - December 14, 2003 ; Onassis Cultural Center, New York, January 19 - April 1, 2004 ; Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, May 1 - August 1, 2004 ; The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, September 14 - December 5, 2004]
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YALE University Press, 2003 - Art - 333 pages
What was childhood like in ancient Greece? What activities and games did Greek children embrace? How were they schooled and what religious and ceremonial rites of passage were key to their development? These fascinating questions and many more are answered in this groundbreaking book--the first English-language study to feature and discuss imagery and artifacts relating to childhood in ancient Greece. Coming of Age in Ancient Greece shows that the Greeks were the first culture to represent children and their activities naturalistically in their art. Here we learn about depictions of children in myth as well as life, from infancy to adolescence. This beautifully illustrated book features such archaeological artifacts as toys and gaming pieces alongside images of them in use by children on ancient vases, coins, terracotta figurines, bronze and stone sculpture, and marble grave monuments. Essays by eminent scholars in the fields of Greek social history, literature, archaeology, anthropology, and art history discuss a wide range of topics, including the burgeoning role of childhood studies in interdisciplinary studies; the status of children in Greek culture; the evolution of attitudes toward children from the Bronze Age to the Hellenistic period as documented by literature and art; the relationships of fathers and sons and mothers and daughters; and the roles of cult practice and death in a child's existence. This delightful book illuminates what is most universal and specific about childhood in ancient Greece and examines childhood's effects on Greek life and culture, the foundation on which Western civilization has been based.

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If women's roles were rarely discussed in Greek manuscripts, Greek children were pretty well invisible. As this book explains, what we know about childhood in ancient Greece comes primarily from ... Read full review

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Constructions of Childhood in the Ancient World
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About the author (2003)

Dr. Jenifer Neils is Ruth Coutler Heede Professor of Art History at Case Western Reserve University, where she has taught since 1980. A scholar of Greek art and archaeology, she organized the exhibition Goddess and Polis: The Panathenaic Festival in Ancient Athens and edited the exhibition catalogue. Neils is also author of The Youthful Deeds of Theseus, the second Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum of the Cleveland Museum of Art, and The Parthenon: From Antiquity to the Present.

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TitleComing of Age in Ancient Greece: Images of Childhood from the Classical Past ; [exhibition Schedule: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 23 - December 14, 2003 ; Onassis Cultural Center, New York, January 19 - April 1, 2004 ; Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati ...
AuthorJohn Howard Oakley
EditorJenifer Neils
ContributorsJenifer Neils, Katherine Hart, Lesley A. Beaumont, Hood Museum of Art
Editionillustrated
PublisherYALE University Press, 2003
ISBN0300099606, 9780300099607
Length333 pages
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