Beryl Rawson

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Beryl Rawson was an Australian classicist and historian renowned for her influential research on the social history of ancient Rome, particularly Roman family life and childhood.

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instanceOf Australian academic
classicist
person
academicDiscipline Ancient history
Classics
affiliation Faculty of Arts, Australian National University
awardReceived Member of the Order of Australia
countryOfCitizenship Australia
dateOfBirth 1933
dateOfDeath 2010
educatedAt University of Oxford
University of Queensland
employer Australian National University
fieldOfWork Classics
Roman history
ancient history
social history of ancient Rome
gender female
hasNationality Australian
influenced scholarship on childhood in antiquity
study of Roman family history
knownFor prosopographical studies of the Roman world
research on Roman family life
research on childhood in ancient Rome
languageOfWorkOrName English
memberOf Australian Academy of the Humanities
notableFor pioneering use of inscriptions for social history of Rome
notableStudent Tim Parkin
notableWork A Companion to Families in the Greek and Roman Worlds
Children and Childhood in Roman Italy
Marriage, Divorce and Children in Ancient Rome
The Family in Ancient Rome: New Perspectives
occupation professor
placeOfBirth Queensland
placeOfDeath Canberra
positionHeld Professor of Classics at the Australian National University
researchInterest Roman demography
Roman slavery
Roman social structure
epigraphy
specializesIn Roman Empire
Roman Italy
Roman family law
Roman funerary inscriptions
workLocation Canberra

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