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Sexual morality in ancient Rome /

The untranslatable concept of pudicitia (broadly meaning 'sexual virtue') is crucial to understanding Roman sexuality. Close reading of Latin literary texts reveals that, ever controversial and unsettled, it formed the heart of several key Roman debates, such as that concerning the differe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Langlands, Rebecca
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Colección:Cambridge books online.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Sexual virtue on display : the cults of pudicitia and honours for women
  • Traditional narratives and Livy's Roman history
  • Valerius Maximus : the complexities of past as paradigm
  • Subversive genres : testing the limits of pudicitia
  • Declamation : What part of 'no' do you understand?
  • Sexual virtue on display II : oratory and the speeches of Cicero
  • Imperial narrative, imperial interventions.