McDonnell, Myles
Roman Manliness

Virtus and the Roman Republic.

McDonnell 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, the author 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. XXI,481 Seiten mit Abb., gebunden (Cambridge University Press 2006) textsauberes Exemplar mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren, leicht berieben und bestoßen mit minimaler Randlädierung, 8 Seiten unaufgeschnitten/clean text pages, minor traces of use, dust jacket slightly rubbed and bumped with slight damage to the edge, 8 pages uncut