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Roman Manliness - "Virtus" and the Roman Republic (Paperback)
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Roman Manliness - "Virtus" and the Roman Republic (Paperback)
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Some studies of ancient Roman masculinities have concentrated on
the private aspects of the subject, particularly sexuality, and
have drawn conclusions from a narrow field of reference, usually
rhetorical practice. In contrast, this 2006 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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