Ancient Youth: The Ambiguity of Youth and the Absence of Adolescence in Greco-Roman Society 9050630634, 9789050630634

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ANCIENT YOUTH: The ambiguity of youth and the absence of adolescence in Greco-Roman society
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Contents
Introduction: Adolescence in historical perspective
1 Two theories on childhood and adolescence
Margaret Mead and adolescence
Polynesian adolescence
after Mead
Philippe Aries and traditional society
After Aries
Man is changeable: the view of Van
den Berg
Mead and Aries and ancient society
2 Youth or adolescence?
Introduction
Adolescence in preindustrial Europe?
Life-cycle servants
The ambiguity of youth
Conclusion
3 Adolescence and ancient society
The status of adulthood in ancient society
The young
as natural successors to the older generation
The two stereotypes of youth
4 Youth and education in ancient society
Who received education in ancient society?
Education
as a status-determinant
Age-grades in ancient education
Infant prodigies
Conclusion
5 The physician in ancient society
The physician as an intellectual
The social status of
the physician in the Hellenistic-Roman period
The physician in comparative perspective
The training of young physicians
Conclusion
6 Legal professions
Lawyers in non-literary sources
Status and activities
of nomikoi
Age and education of young lawyers
Conclusion
7 Senatorial youth
The Roman senate: a perfect gerontocracy
Politics in
late medieval Venice
8 Roman knights
9 Youth and politics in the Greek East
Introduction
Expectations concerning young politicians-in-spe
The young benefactor
Offices and nominal office-holding
Offices
Teenagers and nominal office-holding
Hereditary council membership and patrobouloi
10 Youth and municipal councils in the West
Oligarchy and 'homines novi': a new problem
Exclusivism in the ancient world
Heterogeneity
inside the council
Hereditary membership?
Praetextati and the legal minimum-age
Underage
councillors
The evidence
Bibliography
Index of inscriptions
Index