Care, Socialization & Play in Ancient Attica: A Developmental Childhood Archaeological Approach

Research on children and childhood in ancient Greece is a field in its infancy. This book proposes a new interdisciplinary approach called Developmental Childhood Archaeology. In essence it is an archaeological study based on a collection of material relating to childhood in ancient Attica, dating back to 480-300 B.C. That is, various types of toys, iconographic evidence of children on vases and graves steles, primary written sources on children’s lives, and the view on children in the Greek Classical period.