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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
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ANCIENT YOUTH The ambiguity of youth and the absence of adolescence in Greco-Roman society

DUTCH MONOGRAPHS ON ANCIENT HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY EDITORS

F.J.A.M. MEIJER

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H.W. PLEKET

VOLUME VIII

MARC KLEIJWEGT

ANCIENT YOUTH

ANCIENT YOUTH The ambiguity of youth and the absence of adolescence in Greco-Roman society by

MARC KLEIJWEGT

J.C. GIEBEN, PUBLISHER AMSTERDAM 1991

No part of this book may be translated or reproduced in any form, by print, photoprint, microfilm, or any other means, without written permission from the author.

© by M. Kleijwegt

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ISBN 90 5063 063 4

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Printed in The Netherlands

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