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Like Man, Like Woman - Roman Women, Gender Qualities and Conjugal Relationships at the Turn of the First Century (Paperback, New edition)
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Like Man, Like Woman - Roman Women, Gender Qualities and Conjugal Relationships at the Turn of the First Century (Paperback, New edition)
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Modern scholarship often discusses Roman women in terms of their
difference from their male counterparts, frequently defining them
as 'other'. This book shows how Roman male writers at the turn of
the first century actually described women as not so different from
men: the same qualities and abilities pertaining to the domains of
parenthood, intellect and morals are ascribed by writers to women
as well as to men. There are two voices, however: a traditional,
ideal voice and an individual, realistic voice. This creates a
duality of representations of women, which recurs across literary
genres and reflects a duality of mentality. How can we interpret
the paradoxical information about Roman women given by the
male-authored texts? How does this duality of mentality inform us
about gender roles and gender hierarchy? This work analyses
well-known, as well as overlooked, passages from the writings of
Pliny the Younger, Tacitus, Suetonius, Quintilian, Statius, Martial
and Juvenal and sheds new light on Roman views of women and their
abilities, on the notions of private and public and on conjugal
relationships. In the process, the famous sixth satire of Juvenal
is revisited and its topic reassessed, providing further insights
into the complex issues of gender roles, marriage and emotions. By
contrasting representations of women across a broad spectrum of
literary genres, this book provides consistent findings that have
wide significance for the study of Latin literature and the social
history of the late first and early second centuries.
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