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.

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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

Autorenporträt

Catharine Edwards FBA is Professor of Classics and Ancient History at Birkbeck, University of London. She has translated Suetonius' Lives of the Caesars (2008) and recently published an edition of selected letters of the Younger Seneca (Cambridge, 2019). She was presenter of the television series Mothers, Murderers and Mistresses: Empresses of Ancient Rome (BBC Four) and is a regular contributor to the radio show In Our Time.

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.