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<p>List of Contributors vii</p> <p>Foreword and Acknowledgments xi</p> <p><b>Part I Introduction 1</b></p> <p>1 A Mediterranean Family? A Comparative Approach to the Ancient World 3<br /><i>Sabine R. Huebner</i></p> <p><b>Part II The Greek and Hellenistic World 27</b></p> <p>2 Identifying Family Structures in Early Iron Age Crete 29<br /><i>Leslie Preston Day</i></p> <p>3 The Idea of Descent in Early Greek Kinship 44<br /><i>Emily Varto</i></p> <p>4 The Role of the Extended Family in Exacting Blood Revenge in Classical Athens 65<br /><i>Fiona McHardy</i></p> <p>5 Domestic Architecture in Ephesus from the Hellenistic Period to Late Antiquity 79<br /><i>Helmut Schwaiger</i></p> <p><b>Part III The Roman World 93</b></p> <p>6 Traces of the Unfamiliar: Epigraphic Evidence for Extended Families on the Margins in Roman Italy 95<br /><i>Peter Keegan</i></p> <p>7 Extended Families and Family Substitutes among Migrants in the Roman World 121<br /><i>David Noy</i></p> <p>8 Household Archaeology in Mediterranean Spain: Family Forms from Iberia to Hispania 137<br /><i>Xurxo M. Ayán Vila</i></p> <p>9 Egypt as Part of the Mediterranean? Domestic Space and Household Structures in Roman Egypt 154<br /><i>Sabine R. Huebner</i></p> <p>10 Towards an Archaeology of Household Relationships in Roman Egypt 174<br /><i>Anna Lucille Boozer</i></p> <p>11 Age Hierarchy and Social Networks among Urban Women in the Roman East 204<br /><i>Mona Tokarek LaFosse</i></p> <p>12 Family Forms and Conflicts in Roman North Africa 221<br /><i>Kai Haase and Roland Steinacher</i></p> <p><b>Part IV Late Antiquity 241</b></p> <p>13 Extended Family in the Experiences of Ausonius and Libanius 243<br /><i>Geoffrey Nathan</i></p> <p>14 Household and Family Dynamics in Late Antique Southern Gaul 258<br /><i>Christian Laes and Ville Vuolanto</i></p> <p><b>Part V Outlook in Later Period of the Mediterranean 283</b></p> <p>15 Missing Women in the Italian Middle Ages? Data and Interpretation 285<br /><i>Irene Barbiera, Maria Castiglioni, and Gianpiero Dalla Zuanna</i></p> <p>16 Family Forms in Later Periods of the Mediterranean 310<br /><i>Matteo Manfredini</i></p> <p><b>Part VI Conclusion 325</b></p> <p>17 Reassessing the Premodern Mediterranean Family 327<br /><i>Geoffrey Nathan</i></p> <p>Index 338</p>

<p><b>Sabine R. Huebner</b> is professor of ancient history at the University of Basel, Switzerland. She is the author of<i> Family in Roman Egypt</i> (2013) and <i>Der Klerus in der Gesellschaft des spätantiken Kleinasiens</i> (2005), as well as the co-editor of <i>Inheritance, Law and Religion in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds</i> (2014), <i>The Encyclopedia of Ancient History</i> (Wiley Blackwell, 2012), and <i>Growing up Fatherless in Antiquity</i> (2009).</p> <b>Geoffrey Nathan</b> is a continuing Lecturer of Ancient History at the University of New South Wales.  He has published extensively on the topic of family in the Late Antiquity.  He is the author of <i>The Family in Late Antiquity, The Rise of Christianity and the Endurance of Tradition</i> (2000). His current projects focus on the Constantinopolitan aristocrat Anicia Juliana, and refugee crises in the Later Roman Empire.

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