Old age in the Roman world : a cultural and social history / [print]
Tim G. Parkin.
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, (c)2003.
- xiii, 495 pages ; 22 cm.
- Ancient society and history .
Roman definitions and statements of age -- The demography of old age -- Old age and the Romans : images and attitudes -- Rules of age in the Roman Empire -- Rules of age in Roman Egypt -- The realities of rules of age : proofs of age -- Old age, marriage, and sexuality -- Aging and the Roman family -- The marginality of old age.