Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : age and ageing in the Roman Empire / M. Harlow and R. Laurence
  • Inscriptions from Rome and the history of childhood / C. Laes
  • Children for profit and pleasure / H. Sigismund-Nielsen
  • Growing up in Ravenna : evidence from decoration of children's sarcophagi / J. Huskinson
  • The life course of Jews in the Roman Empire / D. Noy
  • Gender, age, and identity : the female life course at Pompeii / R. Laurence
  • Age and the Roman army : the evidence of tombstones / V.M. Hope
  • Age and male sexuality : 'queer space' in the Roman bath-house? / A. Asa Eger
  • Age, ageism, and osteological bias : the evidence from Late Roman Britain / R. Gowland
  • The influence of culture upon childhood : an osteological study of Iron Age and Romano-British Dorset / R. Redfern
  • Blurred visions : male perceptions of the female like course : the case of Aemilia Pudentilla / M. Harlow
  • Age and aristocratic self-identity : activities for the elderly / K. Cokayne.