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Pliny's Women: Constructing Virtue and Creating Identity in the Roman World

Autor Jacqueline M. Carlon
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 feb 2014
Pliny's Women provides a comprehensive consideration of the many women who appear in the letters of Pliny the Younger. Combining detailed prosopography with close literary analysis, Jacqueline Carlon examines the identities of the women whom Pliny includes and how they and the men with whom they are associated contribute both to this presentation of exemplary Romans and particularly to his own self-promotion. Virtually all of the named women in Pliny's nine-book corpus are considered. They form six distinct groups: those associated with opposition to the principate; the family of Pliny's mentor, Corellius Rufus; his own family members; women involved in testamentary disputes; ideal wives; and women of unseemly character. Detailed analysis of each letter mentioning women includes the identity of its recipient and everyone named within, its disposition within the collection, Pliny's language and style, and its significance to our perception of the changing social fabric of the early principate.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781107647145
ISBN-10: 1107647142
Pagini: 282
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.42 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

1. Pliny: enemy of tyrants; 2. Pliny: model protégé; 3. Pliny: champion of the vulnerable; 4. Pliny: creator of the ideal wife; 5. Pliny: arbiter of virtue.

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'Jacqueline Carlon's book on Pliny's women will surely become an important point of reference for any study on the role of elite women in Imperial times as well as on Pliny's character.' Arctos

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Pliny's Women provides a comprehensive consideration of the many women who appear in the letters of Pliny the Younger.