A Comparative Approach to Intergenerational Solidarity and Conflict
by
Sabine R. Huebner
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
This study captures the dynamics of the everyday family life of the common people in Roman Egypt, a social strata that constituted the vast majority of any pre-modern society but rarely figures in ancient sources or in modern scholarship. The documentary papyri and, above all, the private letters...