The Bad Julias
Emma Dench: Roman Children, 9 May 2013
Children in the Roman Empire: Outsiders Within
by Christian Laes.
Cambridge, 334 pp., £68, March 2011,978 0 521 89746 4 Show More
by Christian Laes.
Cambridge, 334 pp., £68, March 2011,
Children, Memory and Family Identity in Roman Culture
edited by Véronique Dasen and Thomas Späth.
Oxford, 373 pp., £82, October 2011,978 0 19 958257 0 Show More
edited by Véronique Dasen and Thomas Späth.
Oxford, 373 pp., £82, October 2011,
“... lessons were thrashed into them. Sometimes, things went wrong. Cicero was an attentive father, as Thomas Späth shows, keen as a ‘new man’ with no noble Roman ancestry to see his children get on in the world. But he seems to have been a bit of a pushover. He was away in the province of Cilicia, where he was the governor, when he was informed – no ... ”
