Sexual morality in ancient Rome / Rebecca Langlands.

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Langlands, Rebecca

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Cambridge books onlinePublication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 399 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0521859433
9780521859431
9780511219382
0511219385
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9781280480454
9780521109000
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0511317204
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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Sexual morality in ancient Rome.DDC classification:

176.0937 22

LOC classification:

HQ13 .L36 2006eb

Other classification:

15.52
FB 4068
NH 8575
NH 8500

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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.

Summary: 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 difference between men and women.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 366-386) and indexes.

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 difference between men and women.