Francesca Romana Berno

Gebundenes Buch

Roman Luxuria

A Literary and Cultural History

Beschreibung

This book examines the etymological and semantic origins of luxuria in key Latin texts. It discusses the influence of Greek culture on the Roman concept and examines a wide array of classical authors and genres to trace how luxuria becomes one of the Seven Capital Sins in late antiquity, representing the vice of lust.

Autor

Francesca Romana Berno is Associate Professor of Latin Language and Literature, Sapienza University of Rome. Her interests lie in prose writers, especially Seneca and Cicero, and in the semantics and expression of philosophical concepts, with special reference to ethics. She has also written previously on Senecan tragedies and Ovid. In 2021, she founded the open access international review "Lucius Annaeus Seneca".

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 160mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 592g
• ISBN-13: 9780192846402
• ISBN-10: 019284640X
• Artikelnr.: 67479443