The Politics of Immorality in Ancient Rome
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780521893893 (0521893895)
Publish date: May 9th 2002
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...