Modern society has a negative view of youth as a period of storm and stress, but at the same time cherishes the idea of eternal youth. How does this compare with ancient Roman society? Did a phase of youth exist there with its own characteristics? How was youth appreciated? This book studies the lives and the image of youngsters (around 15–25 years of age) in the Latin West and the Greek East in the Roman period. Boys and girls of all social classes come to the fore; their lives, public and private, are sketched with the help of a range of textual and documentary sources, while the authors also employ the results of recent neuropsychological research. The result is a highly readable and wide-ranging account of how the crucial transition between childhood and adulthood operated in the Roman world.
La première partie de l'étude concerne les épigrammes grecques pour des jeunes gens morts prématurément. La deuxième partie étudie les décrets de consolation émis par les cités grecques pour de jeunes notables décédés. Les idées consolatrices de ces deux genres de documents sont comparées et confrontées aux idées exprimées dans les consolations littéraires de rhéteurs et de philosophes, comme celles de Plutarque. Les décrets officiels n'accordent pas d'intérêt aux aspects personnels de la vie des enfants. Ils expriment des idées consolatrices très générales et n'empruntent que quelques idées, pas très profondes, aux doctrines philosophiques, notamment le stoïcisme.
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