Accompanying an exhibition touring America from 2003 to 2004, this book provides an interesting and frequently intimate look at the presence and acitivities of children in ancient Greece.
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Accompanying an exhibition touring America from 2003 to 2004, this book provides an interesting and frequently intimate look at the presence and acitivities of children in ancient Greece.
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New in New jacket. Book. 4to. What was childhood like in ancient Greece? How were children schooled and what religious and ceremonial rites of passage were key to their development? This substantive exhibit catalog shows that the Greeks were the first culture to represent children and their activities naturalistically in their art. First Edition. 4to. Cloth binding, 333 pp. Illustrated throughout. Here we learn about depictions of children in myth as well as life, from infancy to adolescence. Illustrated with hundreds of color and black and white photos, this book features such artifacts as toys and gaming pieces alongside images of children on ancient vases, coins, terracotta figurines, bronze and stone sculpture, and marble monuments.
