Rebecca Langlands

Sexual Morality in Ancient Rome

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Produktbeschreibung

The untranslatable concept of pudicitia (broadly meaning 'sexual virtue') is crucial to understanding Roman sexuality and sexual ethics. This book explores it through a series of nuanced close readings of texts from a wide spectrum of Latin literature, including history, oratory, love poetry and Valerius Maximus' work Memorable Deeds and Sayings. Pudicitia emerges as a controversial and unsettled topic, at the heart of Roman debates about the difference between men and women, the relation between mind and body, and the ethics of power and status differentiation within Roman culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 812g
• ISBN-13: 9780521859431
• ISBN-10: 0521859433
• Artikelnr.: 21330449

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.