Roman Manliness: "Virtus" and the Roman Republic

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Cambridge University Press, 3 lug 2006 - 481 pagine
This book examines the public and the most important aspect of Roman masculinity: Manliness as represented by the concept of virtus. Using traditional historical, philological, and archaeological analyses, together with the methods of socio-linguistics and gender studies, it presents a comprehensive picture of how Roman manliness developed from the middle to the late Republic. Arguing that virtus was not, in essence, a moral concept, Myles McDonnell shows how the semantic range of the word, together with the manly ideal that it embodied, were altered by Greek cultural ideas; and how Roman manliness was contested in the religion, culture, and politics of the late Republic.

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Manliness as Courage in Early Latin
12
Hellenization and Aret Semantic Borrowing
72
Aret and Manly Virtus
105
The Boundaries of Manliness
159
Manliness in Republican Rome
181
Divine Virtus M Claudius Marcellus
206
Virtus Contested
241
Virtus Imperatoris
293
Epilogue Roman Manliness and the Principate
385
Bibliography 391
391
Index Locorum
433
General Index
467
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