The Politics of Immorality in Ancient Rome
A study of why the literature the Romans produced is so preoccupied with immorality.
A study of why the literature the Romans produced is so preoccupied with immorality.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780521400831 (052140083X)
Publish date: October 24th 2003
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pages no: 244
Edition language: English
In this book, Catherine Edwards surveys Roman elite discourse around various manifestations of "immorality" including the theatre, "effeminacy", luxurious housing, gluttony and expenditure. Her aim is to explore what the moralists' focus on particular vices reveals about the anxieties of the Roman e...
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