The Politics Of Immorality In Ancient Rome

Author : Catharine Edwards
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2002-05-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0521893895

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The Politics of Immorality in Ancient Rome by Catharine Edwards Pdf

The decadence and depravity of the ancient Romans are a commonplace of serious history, popular novels and spectacular films. This book is concerned not with the question of how immoral the ancient Romans were but why the literature they produced is so preoccupied with immorality. The modern image of immoral Rome derives from ancient accounts which are largely critical rather than celebratory. Upper-class Romans habitually accused one another of the most lurid sexual and sumptuary improprieties. Historians and moralists lamented the vices of their contemporaries and mourned for the virtues of a vanished age. Far from being empty commonplaces these assertions constituted a powerful discourse through which Romans negotiated conflicts and tensions in their social and political order. This study proceeds by a detailed examination of a wide range of ancient texts (all of which are translated) exploring the dynamics of their rhetoric, as well as the ends to which they were deployed. Roman moralising discourse, the author suggests, may be seen as especially concerned with the articulation of anxieties about gender, social status and political power. Individual chapters focus on adultery, effeminacy, the immorality of the Roman theatre, luxurious buildings and the dangers of pleasure. This book should appeal to students and scholars of classical literature and ancient history. It will also attract anthropologists and social and cultural historians.

Author : Catharine Edwards,Reader in Classics and Ancient History Catharine Edwards
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300112084

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Death in Ancient Rome by Catharine Edwards,Reader in Classics and Ancient History Catharine Edwards Pdf

For the Romans, the manner of a person's death was the most telling indication of their true character. Death revealed the true patriot, the genuine philosopher, even, perhaps, the great artist--and certainly the faithful Christian. Catharine Edwards draws on the many and richly varied accounts of death in the writings of Roman historians, poets, and philosophers, including Cicero, Lucretius, Virgil, Seneca, Petronius, Tacitus, Tertullian, and Augustine, to investigate the complex significance of dying in the Roman world. Death in the Roman world was largely understood and often literally viewed as a spectacle. Those deaths that figured in recorded history were almost invariably violent--murders, executions, suicides--and yet the most admired figures met their ends with exemplary calm, their last words set down for posterity. From noble deaths in civil war, mortal combat between gladiators, political execution and suicide, to the deathly dinner of Domitian, the harrowing deaths of women such as the mythical Lucretia and Nero's mother Agrippina, as well as instances of Christian martyrdom, Edwards engagingly explores the culture of death in Roman literature and history.

Author : Richard A. Bauman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134821341

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Women and Politics in Ancient Rome by Richard A. Bauman Pdf

First published in 1994. The study of women in the societies of antiquity has assumed a fresh significance in recent years. This book delineates not only the influential and manipulative role of Roman women in the business of government, law and public affairs in general, but also the emergence of women's political and liberationist movements. Professor Bauman's investigation covers the period from C350 BC to AD 68, and thus embraces the Middle and Late Republic and the Early Principate. It is demonstrated that the story of Roman women over that period is one of cohesion and continuity, of the steady expansion of women's roles in public affairs. That paced expansion, and the means by which it was achieved, such as the acquisition and use of legal knowledge and the influence of women's movements, is the central theme of this book. Bauman's treatment is principally chronological, stressing sequential development, concluding with the great ladies of the Emperor's House.

Author : Isak Hammar,Lunds universitet. Historiska institutionen [VNV]
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Communication
ISBN : 9174736132

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Making enemies : the logic of immorality in Ciceronian oratory by Isak Hammar,Lunds universitet. Historiska institutionen [VNV] Pdf

"This is a book about Roman immorality and its place in political oratory in ancient Rome during the late Republic. It traces the portraits of immorality that Cicero made of his political and forensic enemies throughout his career."--P. 17.

Author : Rebecca Langlands
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781107040601

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Exemplary Ethics in Ancient Rome by Rebecca Langlands Pdf

"The well-known mythographer Marina Warner has described the process of reading fairy tales and folktales as 'tasting the dragon's blood' - a magical and transformative process by which one's ears are opened to the voices of the past and of other worlds. Roman exempla, which constitute a national story-telling tradition, are very different in many ways from the dream-like fantasies of fairy-tales and other narrative folk traditions that have been the subject of Warner's studies. In (supposedly) true stories from history, battle-hardened warriors, noble maidens and honourable sons of the soil face impossible dangers, take terrible decisions and sacrifice their lives, their limbs and even their own children for the sake of justice, discipline and the Roman community. Yet for the ancient Romans too, hearing the blood-soaked stories of their ancestral heroes was an intimate and potent experience, and this 'taste of the hero's blood' had an intoxicating effect similar to the blood of Warner's dragon: evoking other worlds, shaping understanding of their own world"--

Author : Richard Alexander Bauman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:44594468

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Women and Politics in Ancient Rome by Richard Alexander Bauman Pdf

Author : Harriet I. Flower
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107032248

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The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Republic by Harriet I. Flower Pdf

This second edition examines all aspects of Roman history, and contains a new introduction, three new chapters and updated bibliographies.

Author : Greg Woolf
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2000-07-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0521789826

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Becoming Roman by Greg Woolf Pdf

Studies the 'Romanization' of Rome's Gallic provinces in the late Republic and early empire.

Author : Kristi Upson-Saia
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-16
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781136655418

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Early Christian Dress by Kristi Upson-Saia Pdf

Early Christian Dress is the first full-length monograph on the subject of dress in early Christianity. It pays attention to the ways in which dress expressed and shaped Christian identity, the role dress played in Christians’ rivalries with pagan neighbours, and especially to the ways in which notions of gender were culled and revised in the process. Although many scholars have argued that gender in late antiquity was a performed and embodied category, few have paid attention to the ways in which dress and physical appearances were implicated in the understanding of femininity and masculinity. This study addresses that gap, revealing the amount of sartorial work necessary to secure stable gender categories in the worlds of early Imperial pagans and late ancient Christians. This study analyzes several vigorous discussions and debates that arose over Christian women’s dress. It examines how Christians interpreted their dress—especially the dress of female ascetics—as evidence of Christianity’s advanced morality and piety, a morality and piety that was coded "masculine." Yet even Christian leaders who championed ascetic women’s ability to achieve a degree of virility in terms of their virtue and spiritual status were troubled when ascetics’ dress threatened to materially dissolve gender categories, difference, and hierarchies. In the end, the study enables us to gain a broader view of how gender was constructed, perceived, and contested in early Christianity.

Author : Richard A. Bauman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1138138126

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Women and Politics in Ancient Rome by Richard A. Bauman Pdf

First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Ingo Gildenhard,Cristiano Viglietti
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108840163

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Roman Frugality by Ingo Gildenhard,Cristiano Viglietti Pdf

Explores frugal thought and practice in Roman history, from the archaic period to the early empire and beyond.

Author : Andrew M. Riggsby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521687119

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Roman Law and the Legal World of the Romans by Andrew M. Riggsby Pdf

Andrew Riggsby provides a survey of the main areas of Roman law, and their place in Roman life.

Author : David Johnston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015014217429

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The Roman Law of Trusts by David Johnston Pdf

Few legal institutions developed solely under the Roman Empire, but there is one which can provide a rare illustration of the emperors' involvement in building private law: although Roman law did not recognize a `trust' in the same sense as it is used in common law today, it did develop a device - the fideicommissum - which achieved very similar ends. It has remained largely ignored, and yet it is an ideal case study in the evolution of law. As the most versatile institution of Roman inheritance law, it crucially affected the strategies of succession open to testators, and gives insights into a social history of testators' ambitions and legislative concerns. Over six centuries the trust expanded at the expense of established legal institutions, and with Justinian's reforms it finally became dominant. This book studies the history of the trust and its rise to prominence, with reference to the possible influence of the Roman `fideicommissum'.

Author : Paul Erdkamp
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 647 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107433816

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The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Rome by Paul Erdkamp Pdf

Rome was the largest city in the ancient world. As the capital of the Roman Empire, it was clearly an exceptional city in terms of size, diversity and complexity. While the Colosseum, imperial palaces and Pantheon are among its most famous features, this volume explores Rome primarily as a city in which many thousands of men and women were born, lived and died. The thirty-one chapters by leading historians, classicists and archaeologists discuss issues ranging from the monuments and the games to the food and water supply, from policing and riots to domestic housing, from death and disease to pagan cults and the impact of Christianity. Richly illustrated, the volume introduces groundbreaking new research against the background of current debates and is designed as a readable survey accessible in particular to undergraduates and non-specialists.

Author : James W. Ermatinger
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781440829086

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The World of Ancient Rome [2 volumes] by James W. Ermatinger Pdf

This study of Ancient Rome offers a fascinating glimpse of what Roman society was like—from fashion, to food, to politics and recreation—gathered from literary works, art, and archaeological remains. While the political history and prominent figures of Ancient Rome are well known, accounts of daily life in that time and place often remain untold. This fascinating encyclopedia explores this period from a social and cultural perspective, digging into the day-to-day activities of how Romans dressed, what they ate, how they worked, and what they did for fun. Drawing from recent archaeological evidence, author James W. Ermatinger explores the everyday lives of Roman citizens of all levels and classes. This book is organized into ten sections: art, economics, family, fashion, food, housing, politics, recreation, religion, and science. Each section contains more than two dozen entries that illuminate such topics as slavery as a social movement; the menus of peasants, slaves, and the elite; and the science and engineering solutions that became harbingers for today's technology. The work contains a selection of primary documents as well as a bibliography of print and Internet resources.