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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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Book category Books in English Humanities History History: earliest times to present day

• Full title: Roman Manliness
• Subtitle: "Virtus" and the Roman Republic
• Author: Myles McDonnell
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 504
• EAN: 9780521118934
• ISBN: 052111893X
• ID: 02022727
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 758 g
• Dimensions: 155 × 229 × 36 mm
• Date of publishing: 03. September 2009

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