The Politics of Immorality in Ancient Rome - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Catharine Edwards, Caroline Vout (Foreword by)Series:Cambridge Classical ClassicsPublish date:3/6/2025Pages:274
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781009464116ISBN-10:1009464116UPC:9781009464116Book Category:History, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Ancient, Ancient and ClassicalSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.58 inchesWeight:0.8201Product ID:SCXK783DKN
The Politics of Immorality in Ancient Rome
The question this book addresses is not 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. Far from being empty commonplaces, these accusations constituted a powerful discourse through which Romans negotiated conflicts and...
Series: Cambridge Classical Classics
Language:EnglishPublisher:Cambridge University PressISBN-13:9781009464116ISBN-10:1009464116UPC:9781009464116Book Category:History, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Ancient, Ancient and ClassicalSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.58 inchesWeight:0.8201Product ID:SCXK783DKN
Edwards, Catharine: - Catharine Edwards FBA is Professor of Classics and Ancient History at Birkbeck, University of London. She has translated Suetonius' Lives of the Caesars (2008) and recently published an edition of selected letters of the Younger Seneca (Cambridge, 2019). She was presenter of the television series Mothers, Murderers and Mistresses: Empresses of Ancient Rome (BBC Four) and is...
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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