Like Man, Like Woman: Roman Women, Gender Qualities and Conjugal Relationships at the Turn of the First Century
Modern scholarship often defines Roman women in terms of their difference from men, seeing them as 'other'. This work analyzes both well-known, and overlooked, passages from the writings of Pliny the Younger, Tacitus, Suetonius, Quintilian, Statius, Martial and Juvenal. It sheds a new light on contemporary views of women and their abilities.
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Like Man, Like Woman: Roman Women, Gender Qualities and Conjugal Relationships at the Turn of the First Century
Modern scholarship often defines Roman women in terms of their difference from men, seeing them as 'other'. This work analyzes both well-known, and overlooked, passages from the writings of Pliny the Younger, Tacitus, Suetonius, Quintilian, Statius, Martial and Juvenal. It sheds a new light on contemporary views of women and their abilities.
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Like Man, Like Woman: Roman Women, Gender Qualities and Conjugal Relationships at the Turn of the First Century

Like Man, Like Woman: Roman Women, Gender Qualities and Conjugal Relationships at the Turn of the First Century

by Claude-Emmanuelle Centlivres Challet
Like Man, Like Woman: Roman Women, Gender Qualities and Conjugal Relationships at the Turn of the First Century

Like Man, Like Woman: Roman Women, Gender Qualities and Conjugal Relationships at the Turn of the First Century

by Claude-Emmanuelle Centlivres Challet

Overview

Modern scholarship often defines Roman women in terms of their difference from men, seeing them as 'other'. This work analyzes both well-known, and overlooked, passages from the writings of Pliny the Younger, Tacitus, Suetonius, Quintilian, Statius, Martial and Juvenal. It sheds a new light on contemporary views of women and their abilities.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783039119127
Publisher: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date: 07/11/2013
Pages: 202
Product dimensions: 5.91(w) x 8.86(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

Claude-Emmanuelle Centlivres Challet received a DPhil from the University of Oxford in 2006. She then held lectureships in Latin language and literature at the University of Neuchâtel and in Ancient History at the University of Lausanne, where she is now a research and teaching fellow at the Institut d'Archéologie et des Sciences de l'Antiquité.

Table of Contents

Contents: Within the family – Intellect – Morals – Within the couple – Juvenal’s satire 6.
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