Motherhood and Infancies in the Mediterranean in Antiquity

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Motherhood and childhood are social and cultural constructions that have their origins in prehistoric times and are visible through Greek and Roman discourses in Antiquity. This volume explores various images of maternity and infancy, and the identification of women and womanhood in prehistoric and classic societies. Aspects such as the crucial role of maintenance activities and care, the processes of socialization and learning, the impact of infant death, the figure of the mother queen, the religious discourses about motherhood, the rules on parental rights, the transgressions of traditional motherhood and the emotional aspects of the mother-child relation are analysed. The book covers the ancient Mediterranean area, from Mesopotamia to the Iberian Peninsula and from prehistoric communities to classic societies, with Mesopotamian, Phoenician and Iberian examples. A multidisciplinary approach is adopted, analysing material culture, representations and texts to gain a deeper understanding of the plurality of motherhood, and the diversity of women’s agency through history. Table of Contents List of contributors 1. Motherhood and infancies: archaeological and historical approaches Margarita Sánchez Romero and Rosa Ma Cid López 2. The child is dead: decision-making and emigration in Bronze Age Iberia Paloma González Marcén 3. Learning to be ...: learning and socialisation in ceramic productions during Bronze Age in peninsular southeast Spain Eva Alarcón García, Juan Jesús Padilla Fernández, Alejandra García García and Luis Arboledas Martínez 4. Beyond biology: the constructed nature of motherhood(s) in ancient Near Eastern sources and studies Agnès Garcia-Ventura 5. Death in birth: pregnancy, maternal death and funerary practices in the Phoenician and Punic world Ana Delgado Hervás and Aurora Rivera Hernández 6. Looking after dead infants: the materialisation of care in Sicilian child burials (10th–7th centuries BC) Meritxell Ferrer 7. Creating beings: relations between children and animals in the Iron Age Western Mediterranean Mireia López-Bertran 8. Maternities in Iberian societies. From day-to-day life to sacredness Carmen Rueda Galán, Carmen Rísquez Cuenca and Ana B. Herránz Sánchez 9. Motherhood, gender and identity in the Athenian polis M. Dolors Molas Font 10. Childhood and motherhood in Ancient Greece: an iconographic look Susana Reboreda Morillo 11. The (ir)relevance of being a mother. A legal perspective on the relationship between mothers and children in ancient Greece Laura Pepe 12. The Queen and her children: Royal motherhood in Hellenistic Greece María Dolores Mirón Pérez 13. Mors immatura, childhood and maternal–fi lial relationships in the carmina epigraphica. Case studies from the Iberian Peninsula Rosa María Cid López 14. Mater civitatis: forms of patronage, charity and foundations for children Almudena Domínguez-Arranz 15. Mothers and sons in Plutarch’s Roman Parallel Lives. Auctoritas and maternal infl uence during the Roman Republic Borja Méndez Santiago 16. Seruae, mothers and the mother–child bond in Roman Italy. The analysis of the epigraphic evidence Carla Rubiera Cancelas 17. On the margins of motherhood: images of the puella docta and the lover-poet in the Latin love elegy Rosa Mª Marina Sáez 18. Childhood and maintenance. Legal norms related to education and guardianship of minors, from Antoninus Pius to Justinian María Isabel Núñez Paz 19. The relationship of Iulia Mamaea and Alexander Severus, a young imperator. A review through literary sources Pedro David Conesa Navarro 20. Representations of women, motherhood and childhood in Spanish primary school textbooks Silvia Medina Quintana 21. Women and children omitted in the teaching of history: causes and consequences Antonia Garcia Luque Dedication Book Title Copyright Contents List of contributors 1 Motherhood and infancies: archaeological and historical approaches: Margarita Sánchez Romero and Rosa Ma Cid López 2 The child is dead: decision-making and emigration in Bronze Age Iberia: Paloma González Marcén 3 Learning to be ...: learning and socialisation in ceramic productions during Bronze Age in peninsular southeast Spain: Eva Alarcón García, Juan Jesús Padilla Fernández, Alejandra García García and Luis Arboledas Martínez 4 Beyond biology: the constructed nature of motherhood(s) in ancient Near Eastern sources and studies: Agnès Garcia-Ventura 5 Death in birth: pregnancy, maternal death and funerary practices in the Phoenician and Punic world: Ana Delgado Hervás and Aurora Rivera Hernández 6 Looking after dead infants: the materialisation of care in Sicilian child burials (10th–7th centuries BC): Meritxell Ferrer 7 Creating beings: relations between children and animals in the Iron Age Western Mediterranean: Mireia López-Bertran 8 Maternities in Iberian societies. From day-to-day life to sacredness: Carmen Rueda Galán, Carmen Rísquez Cuenca and Ana B. Herránz Sánchez 9 Motherhood, gender and identity in the Athenian polis: M. Dolors Molas Font 10 Childhood and motherhood in Ancient Greece: an iconographic look: Susana Reboreda Morillo 11 The (ir)relevance of being a mother. A legal perspective on the relationship between mothers and children in ancient Greece: Laura Pepe 12 The Queen and her children: Royal motherhood in Hellenistic Greece: María Dolores Mirón Pérez 13 Mors immatura, childhood and maternal–filial relationships in the carmina epigraphica. Case studies from the Iberian Peninsula: Rosa María Cid López 14 Mater civitatis: forms of patronage, charity and foundations for children: Almudena Domínguez-Arranz 15 Mothers and sons in Plutarch’s Roman Parallel Lives.: Auctoritas and maternal influence during the Roman Republic Borja Méndez Santiago 16 Seruae, mothers and the mother–child bond in Roman Italy. The analysis of the epigraphic evidence: Carla Rubiera Cancelas 17 On the margins of motherhood: images of the puella docta and the lover-poet in the Latin love elegy: Rosa Mª Marina Sáez 18 Childhood and maintenance. Legal norms related to education and guardianship of minors, from Antoninus Pius to Justinian: María Isabel Núñez Paz 19 The relationship of Iulia Mamaea and Alexander Severus, a young imperator. A review through literary sources: Pedro David Conesa Navarro 20 Representations of women, motherhood and childhood in Spanish primary school textbooks: Silvia Medina Quintana 21 Women and children omitted in the teaching of history: causes and consequences: Antonia Garcia Luque