Rebecca Langlands

Sexual Morality in Ancient Rome

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

New study of Roman sexuality and sexual ethics focusing on the crucial and unsettled concept of pudicitia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 660g
• ISBN-13: 9780521109000
• ISBN-10: 0521109000
• Artikelnr.: 26105832

Autorenporträt

Rebecca Langlands is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Exeter.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Sexual virtue on display: the cults of pudicitia and honours for women
2. Traditional narratives and Livy's Roman history
3. Valerius Maximus: the complexities of past as paradigm
4. Subversive genres: testing the limits of pudicitia
5. Declamation: what part of 'no' do you understand?
6. Sexual virtue on display II: oratory and the speeches of Cicero
7. Imperial narrative, imperial interventions.