Sexual morality in ancient Rome

Sexual morality in ancient Rome / Rebecca Langlands.

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Langlands, Rebecca
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Series:Cambridge books online.
Subjects:
Sexual ethics > Rome.
Sex customs > Rome.
Sexual ethics in literature.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Sexuality.
Sexual ethics in literature
Moral conditions
Sex customs
Sexual ethics
Sexualethik
Sexualität
Keuschheit
Seksuele moraal.
Romeinse oudheid.
Sexualitet > Romerska riket.
Sexualetik > Romerska riket.
Sexualitet i litteraturen.
Rome > Moral conditions.
Rome (Empire)
Römisches Reich
History
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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