Roman manliness : virtus and the Roman 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.
Print Book, English, 2009
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Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2009
xxi, 481 p. : il., fot. ; 23 cm.
9780521118934, 9780521827881, 0521827884, 052111893X
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Virtus and early Latin pp. 12-16
Plautus and Roman comedy pp. 16-33
Early Latin inscriptions pp. 33-43
Early Latin epic, tragedy, and history pp. 44-50
M. Porcius Cato pp. 50-59
Virtus and martial courage in the Middle republic pp. 59-71
Hellenization and 'Apetń : semantic borrowing
Bilingualism and semantic calque pp. 72-84
Virtus and Fortuna pp. 84-95
Virtute deum pp. 95-104
'Apetń and manly virtus
Semantic borrowing and popular theater pp. 105-107
Virtus as human excellence pp. 107-110
Ethical virtus pp. 110-128
Virtus and the canonical "virtues" pp. 128-134
Virtus as a political value pp. 134-141
Visual representations of virtus
Visualization of abstract concepts in ancient Rome pp. 142-146
Virtus as the armed amazon pp. 146-149
Virtus and the mounted warrior pp. 149-154
The equestrian image in republican Rome pp. 154-158
The boundaries of manliness
Virtus, slaves, and foreigners pp. 159-161
Virtus and women pp. 161-165
Virtus and sexuality pp. 165-168
Fatherhood, family, and wealth: virtus and private life pp. 168-173
Man and boy : patria potestas and virtus pp. 173-180
Manliness in republican Rome
Teaching manliness pp. 181-185
Aristocrats and horses pp. 185-195
Institutional constraints on displays of manliness pp. 195-205
Divine virtus, M. Claudius Marcellus and Roman politics
Manliness and politics pp. 206-209
Abstract deities and divine virtus pp. 209-212
Virtus and honos pp. 212-228
Breaking the constraints pp. 228-235
Marcellus' successors pp. 235-240
Virtus contested
The experience of war pp. 242-247
Equites equo publico pp. 248-258
Cultural change and hellenism pp. 259-265
The new man of virtus pp. 265-267
Marius and the gods pp. 267-271
Competing definitions of manliness pp. 271-290
Virtus and the legacy of Marius pp. 290-292
Virtus imperatoris
Virtus in the late republic pp. 293-295
The virtus of Pompey pp. 295-300
Virtus and Caesar's commentaries pp. 300-319
Manliness redefined
Virtus and the new man pp. 320-332
Imperator togatus : Cicero's claim to virtus pp. 332-355
The dual nature of virtus in Sallust pp. 356-384
Epilogue : Roman manliness and the principate pp. 385-389
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