Throughout history, every culture has had its own ideas on what growing up and growing old means, this volume highlights the role of age in determining behaviour across the life span of an inhabitant of ancient Rome.

1. Introduction: Ageing in Antiquity 2. The Location of the Life Course: the Household 3. The Beginning of Life: Infancy and Childhood 4. Transition to Adulthood 1: Female 5. Transition to Adulthood 2: Male 6. The Place of Marriage in the Life Course 7. Kinship Extension and Age Mixing through Marriage 8. Age and Politics 9. Getting Old 10. Death and the Memory 11. Age and Ageing in the Roman Empire and Beyond 12. Appendix