Sexual morality in ancient Rome /
Traditionally, scholars have approached Roman sexuality using categories of sexual ethics drawn from contemporary, Western society. In this 2006 book Dr Langlands seeks to move away from these towards a deeper understanding of the issues that mattered to the Romans themselves, and the ways in which...
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2006.
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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.
