Sexual Morality in Ancient Rome Book [PDF] Download

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 24,7 Mb
• Release Date : 25 May 2006

A 2006 study of Roman sexuality and sexual ethics focusing on the crucial and unsettled concept of pudicitia.

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 22,6 Mb
• Release Date : 25 May 2006

Traditionally, scholars have approached Roman sexuality using categories of sexual ethics drawn from contemporary, Western society. In this 2006 book Dr Langlands seeks to move away from these towards a deeper

• Publisher : Harvard University Press
• File Size : 37,6 Mb
• Release Date : 01 June 2013

The transformation of the Roman world from polytheistic to Christian is one of the most sweeping ideological changes of premodern history. At the center was sex. Kyle Harper examines how

• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
• File Size : 32,9 Mb
• Release Date : 02 August 2013

Sex is beyond reason, and yet we constantly reason about it. So, too, did the peoples of ancient Greece and Rome. But until recently there has been little discussion of

• Publisher : Princeton University Press
• File Size : 42,7 Mb
• Release Date : 06 October 2020

This collection of essays seeks to establish Roman constructions of sexuality and gender difference as a distinct area of research, complementing work already done on Greece to give a fuller

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 54,8 Mb
• Release Date : 13 September 2018

"The well-known mythographer Marina Warner has described the process of reading fairy tales and folktales as 'tasting the dragon's blood' - a magical and transformative process by which one's ears

• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
• File Size : 43,9 Mb
• Release Date : 29 May 2024

Like in St. Paul's day, the Church around the world-and particularly in the United States-now frequently faces hostility at the first mention of homosexuality in casual conversations or public-square debates.

• Publisher : Pen and Sword History
• File Size : 20,5 Mb
• Release Date : 30 November 2021

A fascinating and often-funny look into Romans’ private (or not-so-private) lives, exploring the truth behind the empire’s salacious reputation. From emperors to empresses, poets to prostitutes, slaves to plebs,

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 50,9 Mb
• Release Date : 05 February 2018

Looking at sex and sexuality from a variety of historical, sociological and theoretical perspectives, as represented in a variety of media, Sex in Antiquity represents a vibrant picture of the

• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• File Size : 51,8 Mb
• Release Date : 09 May 2002

The decadence and depravity of the ancient Romans are a commonplace of serious history, popular novels and spectacular films. This book is concerned not with the question of how immoral