Cambridge Univ Pr, Date: 2006. Hardcover. New. new title edition. 408 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.25 inches. 2006. Cambridge Univ Pr ISBN 0521859433 9780521859431 [GB]

ISBN10: 0521859433, ISBN13: 9780521859431, [publisher: Cambridge University Press] Hardcover Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - The untranslatable concept of pudicitia (broadly meaning 'sexual virtue') is crucial to understanding Roman sexuality and sexual ethics. This book explores it through a series of nuanced close readings of texts from a wide spectrum of Latin literature, including history, oratory, love poetry and Valerius Maximus' work Memorable Deeds and Sayings. Pudicitia emerges as a controversial and unsettled topic, at the heart of Roman debates about the difference between men and women, the relation between mind and body, and the ethics of power and status differentiation within Roman culture.
[Einbeck, Germany] [Publication Year: 2006]
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