Catharine Edwards

The Politics of Immorality in Ancient Rome

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A study of why the literature the Romans produced is so preoccupied with immorality.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Januar 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 402g
• ISBN-13: 9780521893893
• ISBN-10: 0521893895
• Artikelnr.: 21918324

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. A moral revolution? The law against adultery
2. Mollitia: reading the body
3. Playing Romans: representations of actors and the theatre
4. Structures of immorality: rhetoric, building and social hierarchy
5. Prodigal pleasures.