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June 10, 2008
Jeannine Diddle Uzzi Children in the Visual Arts of Imperial Rome Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 256 pp.; 75 b/w ills. Cloth $80.00 (9780521820264)
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CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2008.56

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Jeannine Diddle Uzzi’s Children in the Visual Arts of the Roman Empire joins an increasingly crowded field of scholarship on ancient childhood, especially that concerned with the theme of its social “construction.” Recent work, from Beryl Rawson’s authoritative Children and Childhood in Roman Italy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003) to Ada Cohen and Jeremy Rutter’s new collection Constructions of Childhood in Ancient Greece and Italy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007), has focused attention on how...