TY  - BOOK
AU  - Laes,Christian
AU  - Strubbe,Johan
TI  - Youth in the Roman Empire: The Young and the Restless Years? 
SN  - 9781107270121 (ebook)
AV  - DG91 .L3313 2014
U1  - 937/.06083 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016)
N2  - Modern society has a negative view of youth as a period of storm and stress, but at the same time cherishes the idea of eternal youth. How does this compare with ancient Roman society? Did a phase of youth exist there with its own characteristics? How was youth appreciated? This book studies the lives and the image of youngsters (around 15–25 years of age) in the Latin West and the Greek East in the Roman period. Boys and girls of all social classes come to the fore; their lives, public and private, are sketched with the help of a range of textual and documentary sources, while the authors also employ the results of recent neuropsychological research. The result is a highly readable and wide-ranging account of how the crucial transition between childhood and adulthood operated in the Roman world
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107270121
ER  -