Death of a Roman child

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