
Published online:
01 January 2010
Published in print:
03 March 2005
Online ISBN:
9780191708589
Print ISBN:
9780199268412
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Burial and Family Structure Burial and Family Structure
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The Inscription as ‘Biography’ The Inscription as ‘Biography’
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The Choice of Spouse The Choice of Spouse
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Chapter
9 Family and Kinship in Roman Africa
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Pages
255–286
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Published:March 2005
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Corbier, Mireille, 'Family and Kinship in Roman Africa', in Michele George (ed.), The Roman Family in the Empire: Rome, Italy, and Beyond (Oxford , 2005; online edn, Oxford Academic, 1 Jan. 2010), https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199268412.003.09, accessed 3 May 2025.
Abstract
In extricating possible Roman influence on family structure and practice from among the varied cultural influences (indigenous, Hellenized Greek, Punic, Roman, and eventually Christian) which shaped family life, this chapter finds conventional Roman approaches to funerary commemorations, but speculates that distinctive customs in the provinces of North Africa in ancient Rome might be visible in, for example, regional variations in marriage customs. The focus is on burial and family relations in connection with the corresponding vocabulary of kinship; the inscription, and especially the epitaph, as ‘biography’; and the question of the choice of spouse.
Keywords:
family, kinship, North Africa, ancient Rome, family structure, funerary commemorations, customs, marriage, burial, epitaph
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