Catharine Edwards

The Politics of Immorality in Ancient Rome

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Produktbeschreibung

Why was the literature of ancient Rome so preoccupied with immorality? Arguing that this powerful moralising discourse was utilised by Romans to negotiate conflicts and tensions in their social and political order, this study is of vital importance to students, scholars and non-specialists intrigued by Roman culture and society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009464062
• ISBN-10: 100946406X
• Artikelnr.: 72599752

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

Foreword
Preface
Introduction to the Cambridge Classical Classics edition
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
Bibliography
Index locorum
Index of subjects and proper names.