- Title
- Death of a Roman child
- Creator
- Lindsay, Hugh
- Relation
- Children in Antiquity: Perspectives and Experiences of Childhood in the Ancient Mediterranean p. 519-532
- Relation
- Rewriting Antiquity
- Relation
- doi.org/10.4324/9781315542812
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2021
- Description
- The death of children at an early age was common in ancient Rome. Children who died young, however, were commemorated with inscriptions and accompanying reliefs. While there was a philosophical attitude that mourning for children, especially the very young, should be limited, mourning could and did take place, and was socially expected. Any achievements which a child had made were extolled as a way not simply of praising them, but of emphasising the loss of their potential and their parents’ disappointment. While children were buried promptly, this was not a reflection of a lack of feeling on their parents’ behalf.
- Subject
- Rome; death; child; ancient Rome
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1425656
- Identifier
- uon:38288
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781138780866
- Language
- eng
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