Popular Morality In The Early Roman Empire
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Popular Morality In The Early Roman Empire
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Author : Teresa Morgan
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2007-08-09
Popular Morality In The Early Roman Empire written by Teresa Morgan and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-08-09 with History categories.
Morality is one of the fundamental structures of any society, enabling complex groups to form, negotiate their internal differences and persist through time. In the first book-length study of Roman popular morality, Dr Morgan argues that we can recover much of the moral thinking of people across the Empire. Her study draws on proverbs, fables, exemplary stories and gnomic quotations, to explore how morality worked as a system for Roman society as a whole and in individual lives. She examines the range of ideas and practices and their relative importance, as well as questions of authority and the relationship with high philosophy and the ethical vocabulary of documents and inscriptions. The Roman Empire incorporated numerous overlapping groups, whose ideas varied according to social status, geography, gender and many other factors. Nevertheless it could and did hold together as an ethical community, which was a significant factor in its socio-political success.
Popular Morality In The Early Roman Empire
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Author : Teresa Jean Morgan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Popular Morality In The Early Roman Empire written by Teresa Jean Morgan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Ethics categories.
Explores how morality worked, for Roman society as a whole and for individuals.
Popular Morality In The Early Roman Empire
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Author : Morgan Teresa
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-05-14
Popular Morality In The Early Roman Empire written by Morgan Teresa and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-14 with PHILOSOPHY categories.
Explores how morality worked, for Roman society as a whole and for individuals.
Ancient Rome And Modern America A Comparative Study Of Morals And Manners
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Author : Guglielmo Ferrero
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2023-10-13
Ancient Rome And Modern America A Comparative Study Of Morals And Manners written by Guglielmo Ferrero and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-13 with Fiction categories.
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Ancient Rome And Modern America A Comparative Study Of Morals And Manners
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Author : Guglielmo Ferrero
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2023-09-08
Ancient Rome And Modern America A Comparative Study Of Morals And Manners written by Guglielmo Ferrero and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-08 with Fiction categories.
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The Politics Of Immorality In Ancient Rome
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Author : Catharine Edwards
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2002-05-09
The Politics Of Immorality In Ancient Rome written by Catharine Edwards and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-05-09 with History categories.
The decadence and depravity of the ancient Romans are a commonplace of serious history, popular novels and spectacular films. This book is concerned not with the question of how immoral the ancient Romans were but why the literature they produced is so preoccupied with immorality. The modern image of immoral Rome derives from ancient accounts which are largely critical rather than celebratory. Upper-class Romans habitually accused one another of the most lurid sexual and sumptuary improprieties. Historians and moralists lamented the vices of their contemporaries and mourned for the virtues of a vanished age. Far from being empty commonplaces these assertions constituted a powerful discourse through which Romans negotiated conflicts and tensions in their social and political order. This study proceeds by a detailed examination of a wide range of ancient texts (all of which are translated) exploring the dynamics of their rhetoric, as well as the ends to which they were deployed. Roman moralising discourse, the author suggests, may be seen as especially concerned with the articulation of anxieties about gender, social status and political power. Individual chapters focus on adultery, effeminacy, the immorality of the Roman theatre, luxurious buildings and the dangers of pleasure. This book should appeal to students and scholars of classical literature and ancient history. It will also attract anthropologists and social and cultural historians.
Ancient Rome And Modern America
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Author : Guglielmo Ferrero
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1914
Ancient Rome And Modern America written by Guglielmo Ferrero and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1914 with America categories.
Exemplary Ethics In Ancient Rome
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Author : Rebecca Langlands
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018-09-13
Exemplary Ethics In Ancient Rome written by Rebecca Langlands and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-13 with Education categories.
"The well-known mythographer Marina Warner has described the process of reading fairy tales and folktales as 'tasting the dragon's blood' - a magical and transformative process by which one's ears are opened to the voices of the past and of other worlds. Roman exempla, which constitute a national story-telling tradition, are very different in many ways from the dream-like fantasies of fairy-tales and other narrative folk traditions that have been the subject of Warner's studies. In (supposedly) true stories from history, battle-hardened warriors, noble maidens and honourable sons of the soil face impossible dangers, take terrible decisions and sacrifice their lives, their limbs and even their own children for the sake of justice, discipline and the Roman community. Yet for the ancient Romans too, hearing the blood-soaked stories of their ancestral heroes was an intimate and potent experience, and this 'taste of the hero's blood' had an intoxicating effect similar to the blood of Warner's dragon: evoking other worlds, shaping understanding of their own world"--
Ethics In Ancient Israel
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Author : John Barton
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2014-11-07
Ethics In Ancient Israel written by John Barton and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-07 with Religion categories.
Ethics in Ancient Israel is a study of ethical thinking in ancient Israel from around the eighth to the second century BC. The evidence for this consists primarily of the Old Testament/ Hebrew Bible and Apocrypha, but also other ancient Jewish writings such as the Dead Sea Scrolls and various anonymous and pseudonymous texts from shortly before the New Testament period. Professor John Barton argues that there were several models for thinking about ethics, including a 'divine command' theory, something approximating to natural law, a virtue ethic, and a belief in human custom and convention. Moreover, he examines ideas of reward and punishment, purity and impurity, the status of moral agents and patients, imitation of God, and the image of God in humanity. Barton maintains that ethical thinking can be found not only in laws but also in the wisdom literature, in the Psalms, and in narrative texts. There is much interaction with recent scholarship in both English and German. The book features discussion of comparative material from other ancient Near Eastern cultures and a chapter on short summaries of moral teaching, such as the Ten Commandments. This innovative work should be of interest to those concerned with the interpretation of the Old Testament but also to students of ethics.
Greek Popular Morality In The Time Of Plato And Aristotle
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Author : K. J. Dover
language : en
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
Release Date : 1994-01-01
Greek Popular Morality In The Time Of Plato And Aristotle written by K. J. Dover and has been published by Hackett Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-01-01 with History categories.
In ancient Greece, as today, popular moral attitudes differed importantly from the theories of moral philosophers. While for the latter we have Plato and Aristotle, this insightful work explores the everyday moral conceptions to which orators appealed in court and political assemblies, and which were reflected in non-philosophical literature. Oratory and comedy provide the primary testimony, and reference is also made to Sophocles, Euripides, Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, and other sources. The selection of topics, the contrasts and comparisons with modern religious, social and legal principles, and accessibility to the non-specialist ensure the work's appeal to all readers with an interest in ancient Greek culture and social life.