Sexual Morality in Ancient Rome
Rebecca (Lecturer in Classics, University of Exeter) Langlands
Cambridge University Press, 2006
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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.
- ISBN-13
- 9780521859431
- ISBN-10
- 0521859433
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Year
- 2006
- Publication date
- 2006-05-25
- Pages
- 408
- Dimensions
- 232x161x32
- Weight
- 742