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Written by a team of experts, this first volume of A Cultural History of Youth examines the ambiguity of youth in the ancient world, depictions of youth in literature, adult views of the young, agency and experience of young people, and the broader social contexts in which the cultural histories of the ancient world played out. Overall, this volume offers a dynamic account of youth in the ancient world, providing a detailed study of the 500BCE-500CE period, and allowing readers to trace representations and enactments of youth across time. While still concentrating on the Graeco-Roman world, it offers a more global approach to antiquity than previous work in the field. Richly illustrated with images of statues, sculptures, friezes, and artefacts, this volume offers a detailed study of youth in ancient culture and covers its interactions with themes such as Concepts of Youth; Spaces and Places; Education and Work; Leisure and Play; Emotions; Gender, Sexuality and the Body; Belief and Ideology; Authority and Agency; War and Conflict; and Towards a Global History

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Christian Laes is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Manchester, UK. He is the author of Children in the Roman Empire (2011), Disabilities and the Disabled in the Roman World (2018) and the co-author, along with Johan Strubbe, of Youth in the Roman Empire (2014). Ville Vuolanto is Senior Lecturer of History and Latin Language at the Tampere University, Finland. He has published extensively on children, youth and family in the Roman and Late Antique periods, including Children and Asceticism in Late Antiquity (2015).

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