Teresa Morgan

Popular Morality in the Early Roman Empire (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Morality is one of the fundamental structures of any society, enabling complex groups to form, negotiate their internal differences and persist through time. In the first book-length study of Roman popular morality, Dr Morgan argues that we can recover much of the moral thinking of people across the Empire. Her study draws on proverbs, fables, exemplary stories and gnomic quotations, to explore how morality worked as a system for Roman society as a whole and in individual lives. She examines the range of ideas and practices and their relative importance, as well as questions of authority and the relationship with high philosophy and the ethical vocabulary of documents and inscriptions. The Roman Empire incorporated numerous overlapping groups, whose ideas varied according to social status, geography, gender and many other factors. Nevertheless it could and did hold together as an ethical community, which was a significant factor in its socio-political success.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. August 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139810708
• Artikelnr.: 52836637

Autorenporträt

TERESA MORGAN is Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History at Oriel College, Oxford, and a self-supporting priest in the parish of Littlemore. She is the author of a number of academic and popular books.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
Part I: 2. Proverbs
3. Fables
4. Gnomai
5. Exempla
6. Patterns
Part II: 7. The language of morality
8. Moral authorities
9. Time and morality
Part III: 10. The importance of being miscellaneous
11. Popular morality and high philosophy
12. Morality inter alia
Conclusion
Appendices.