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Author Langlands, Rebecca.

Title Sexual morality in ancient Rome / Rebecca Langlands.

Publication Info. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 399 pages)
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Physical Medium polychrome
Series Cambridge books online.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 366-386) and indexes.
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.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Sexual ethics -- Rome.
Sex customs -- Rome.
Sexual ethics in literature.
Sexual ethics in literature.
Rome -- Moral conditions.
Rome (Empire)
Moral conditions.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Subject Sexual practices.
Other Form: Print version: Langlands, Rebecca. Sexual morality in ancient Rome. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006 (DLC) 2006298240
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