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The brothers of Romulus : fraternal Pietas in Roman law, literature, and society /

Stories about brothers were central to Romans' public and poetic myth making, to their experience of family life, and to their ideas about intimacy among men. Through the analysis of literary and legal representations of brothers, Cynthia Bannon attempts to re-create the context and contradicti...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bannon, Cynthia Jordan
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1997.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. At Home. Consortium and Fraternal Pietas. Inheritance Practices: Brothers and Sons. Consortium and Brothers' Roles in the Family
  • 2. Between Brothers. Biology and Identity. Lovers and Brothers
  • 3. In the Form. Fraternal Pietas in Public. Cicero and Quintus: A Case Study. Scipio Africanus and Scipio Asiagenus. Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus
  • 4. On the Battlefield. Stipata Cohors: Brothers and the Mos Maiorum. Fraterna Comminus Arma: Brother against Brother. Romulus and Remus Reconsidered
  • 5. At the Palace.