Presenter: Tim Parkin
Synopsis:
What’s the best age to get married? Or to have children? In this talk I consider these timeless questions by looking at ancient Greek (and a few Roman) opinions. As one might expect, there is no single answer! So I also want to consider what motivates different people (especially Aristotle) to come up with the answers they do.
Bio:
Professor Tim Parkin joined the University of Melbourne in 2018 as the inaugural Elizabeth and James Tatoulis Chair in Classics. Tim is a New Zealander by birth who was awarded a D.Phil. at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and who, since 1989, has worked in universities in New Zealand, Australia, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Tim’s teaching covers both ancient history and classical languages. His main research is in Roman social, cultural, legal, and demographic history. Among Tim’s publications are Demography and Roman Society (1992), Old Age in the Roman World: A Social and Cultural History (2003), Roman Social History: A Sourcebook (2007), and The Oxford Handbook of Childhood and Education in the Classical World (2014). He is currently working on a book on ancient sexual health and is co-editing a six-volume world history of old age.
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