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Title: Fine updated study of ancient Athenian childhood
Review: Mark Golden's book puts the humanity back into our picture of Athenian childhood. He replaces the rather heartless image left us by earlier scholars (based on practices like the exposure of newborns, or the farming out of offspring to nurses) with a more nuanced and gentler one emphasising the natural affection within families, while giving due weight to the more ruthlessly pragmatic practices of the age. A few more illustrations might have been handy, but this is a well-written, well-researched and thought-provoking read.
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