Contents

List of Figures
xi
Preface
xiii
One
Characteristics of Childhood and Children
1
Two
The Child in the Household and the Community
23
Three
The Child and His or Her Peers
51
Four
Parents and Children
80
Five
Brothers, Sisters, and Grandparents
115
Six
Outsiders and Alliances
141
Seven
Change: A Postscript on the Dowries of New Comedy
169
List of Abbreviations
181
Notes
183
Bibliography
233
Index
257
Books in the Series
268

List of Figures

Figure 1. The shoemaker Xanthippus and his daughters. London, British Museum 628. Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum. / 19
Figure 2. A father takes his son to the shoemaker’s. Oxford, Ashmolean Museum 563. / 29
Figure 3. A pais amphithalês rides in a wedding procession. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art 56.11.1 (Walter C. Baker Gift 1956). / 31
Figure 4. A family sacrifices a sheep to Asclepius. Athens, National Archaeological Museum 1407. / 32
Figure 5. Older girls mind small children while they swing. Stuttgart, Württembergisches Landesmuseum 65/1. / 34
Figure 6. A woman works wool while a girl sits nearby. Athens, Acropolis Museum 2525. / 35
Figure 7. Boys feed chickens. Athens, National Archaeological Museum 1654 (three images, a-c). / 36
Figure 8. A father and his son stand before an image of Zeus Meilichius. Berlin, Staatliche Museen K92. / 42
Figure 9. Boys play school. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art 17.230.10 (Rogers Fund 1917). / 56
Figure 10. A boy recites to a group of women. Amsterdam, Allard Pierson Museum 8210 / 63
Figure 11. A schoolgirl and her slave (?). New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art 06.1021.167 (Rogers Fund 1906). / 73
Figure 12. A girl and a tortoise. London, British Museum F101. Courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum. / 75
Figure 13. Arrhēphoroi play ball. Tübingen, Universitätsammlung E112. / 77
Figure 14. Brothers on a chous. Athens, National Archaeological Museum 14509. / 116
Figure 15. A boy and a woman in the gynaikônitis. Dallas, Museum of Art 1968.28. A (Gift of the Junior League of Dallas). / 124
Figure 16. A girl shakes a rattle for a baby boy. Athens, National Archaeological Museum 1268 (two images, a-b). / 126
Figure 17. Grave stele of a youth and his little sister. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art 11.185 (Hewitt Fund 1911, Rogers Fund 1921, Munsey Fund 1936 and 1938, Anonymous Gift 1951). / 127