Ground-breaking study revealing the thrill and moral power of the ancient Roman story-world and its ancestral tales of bloody heroism.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Rebecca Langlands is Professor of Classics at the University of Exeter. Her books include Sexual Morality in Ancient Rome (Cambridge, 2006) and Sex, Knowledge, and Receptions of the Past (2015). She is also a founder and director of the award-winning Sex and History project, which works with museums, schools, charities and young people to promote empowering discussion of contemporary sexual issues.
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Introduction 1. Roman values and the archetypal exemplum 2. The special capacity of exemplary stories 3. Exploitation, participation and the social function exempla 4. The experience of learning from exempla 5. Multiplicity, breadth, diversity and situational sensitivity in exemplary ethics 6. Working consensus around Roman exempla 7. Indeterminacy of exempla: interpretation, motivation and improvisation 8. Sites of exemplarity: referentiality, memory, orality 9. The dynamics of cultural memory: forgetting, rupture, contestation 10. Changing sites of exemplarity: two case studies 11. Diachronic overview of the exemplary terrain 12. Controversial thinking through exempla 13. Philosophical and literary adventures in the exemplary terrain Conclusion.
Introduction 1. Roman values and the archetypal exemplum 2. The special capacity of exemplary stories 3. Exploitation, participation and the social function exempla 4. The experience of learning from exempla 5. Multiplicity, breadth, diversity and situational sensitivity in exemplary ethics 6. Working consensus around Roman exempla 7. Indeterminacy of exempla: interpretation, motivation and improvisation 8. Sites of exemplarity: referentiality, memory, orality 9. The dynamics of cultural memory: forgetting, rupture, contestation 10. Changing sites of exemplarity: two case studies 11. Diachronic overview of the exemplary terrain 12. Controversial thinking through exempla 13. Philosophical and literary adventures in the exemplary terrain Conclusion.
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