This seminar, open to all Master’s students, takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of family, marriage, gender, and childhood in Ancient Greece and Rome from a historical perspective. Students will explore family structures, gender roles and their impact on society, wedding and divorce rituals, inheritance practices, and the gendered practices of child-rearing. Special attention is given to how family institutions and gender norms shaped social relations, culture, and traditions in antiquity. The course also encourages drawing analogies with modern societies in order to identify aspects of family and childhood culture in antiquity that have influenced contemporary views, as well as those that differ significantly.
- Enseignant·e: Oksana Ruchynska