Ancient Youth: The Ambiguity of Youth and the Absence of Adolescence in Greco-Roman Society (Dutch Monographs on Ancient History and Archaeology)

By Marc Kleijwegt. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 335-381) And Indexes. ANCIENT YOUTH: The ambiguity of youth and the absence of adolescence in Greco-Roman society 4 Copyright 5 Contents 8 Introduction: Adolescence in historical perspective 12 1 Two theories on childhood and adolescence 18 Margaret Mead and adolescence 18 Polynesian adolescence after Mead 20 Philippe Aries and traditional society 28 After Aries 30 Man is changeable: the view of Van den Berg 39 Mead and Aries and ancient society 41 2 Youth or adolescence? 44 Introduction 44 Adolescence in preindustrial Europe? 47 Life-cycle servants 55 The ambiguity of youth 58 Conclusion 66 3 Adolescence and ancient society 68 The status of adulthood in ancient society 75 The young as natural successors to the older generation 85 The two stereotypes of youth 88 4 Youth and education in ancient society 92 Who received education in ancient society? 93 Education as a status-determinant 100 Age-grades in ancient education 105 Infant prodigies 140 Conclusion 180 5 The physician in ancient society 152 The physician as an intellectual 155 The social status of the physician in the Hellenistic-Roman period 160 The physician in comparative perspective 168 The training of young physicians 172 Conclusion 203 6 Legal professions 182 Lawyers in non-literary sources 186 Status and activities of nomikoi 190 Age and education of young lawyers 198 Conclusion 203 7 Senatorial youth 204 The Roman senate: a perfect gerontocracy 205 Politics in late medieval Venice 215 8 Roman knights 226 9 Youth and politics in the Greek East 238 Introduction 238 Expectations concerning young politicians-in-spe 242 The young benefactor 250 Offices and nominal office-holding 264 Offices 264 Teenagers and nominal office-holding 270 Hereditary council membership and patrobouloi 280 10 Youth and municipal councils in the West 290 Oligarchy and 'homines novi': a new problem 293 Exclusivism in the ancient world 306 Heterogeneity inside the council 312 Hereditary membership? 318 Praetextati and the legal minimum-age 321 Underage councillors 328 The evidence 333 Bibliography 352 Index of inscriptions 400 Index 412