Reading Roman Friendship

Informationen zum Autor Craig A. Williams is Professor of Classics at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and in 2006 he was awarded Brooklyn College's Leonard and Claire Tow Endowed Professorship. He is the author of the acclaimed Roman Homosexuality, 2nd edition (2010), an introduction and commentary in Martial: Epigrams, Book Two (2004) and numerous articles and reviews on Latin literature and Roman culture. Klappentext A comprehensive study of friendship in ancient Rome attentive to gender and social status, language and the commemoration of the dead. Zusammenfassung This book explores the ways in which friendship was performed by Romans through readings of a wide range of literary texts - poems! novels and philosophical writings! letters both by emperors and by soldiers and commemorations on epitaphs commissioned by men! women! citizens and slaves. A richly varied and perhaps surprising picture emerges. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: reading Roman friendship; 1. Men and women; 2. Love and friendship I: questions and themes; 3. Love and friendship II: authors and texts; 4. Friendship and death: the culture of commemoration.

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• Authors: Craig A Williams, Craig A. Williams, Craig A. (Brooklyn College Williams, WILLIAMS CRAIG A, Williams Craig A.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.10.2012
• EAN: 9781107003651
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00365-1
• No. of pages: 390
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; European History, HISTORY / Ancient / General, Social & cultural history, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient Rome, Social and cultural history, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Sociology: family and relationships