ABSTRACT
This chapter searches for change in the daily lives of families and children in the Hellenistic period. It examines the dispersed and varied evidence from different regions such as Asia Minor, Egypt, Macedonia and Greece, and Central Asia up to India. Agency and the experience of children are matters which are explicitly addressed. While the difficulty in finding change is fully acknowledged, some elements which created the specificity of living as a child in the Hellenistic world can be, and are, suggested.
