Popular Morality in the Early Roman Empi

Informationen zum Autor Teresa Morgan is University Lecturer in Ancient History at Oxford and a Fellow of Oriel College. She is the author of Literate Education in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds (1998). Klappentext Explores how morality worked, for Roman society as a whole and for individuals. Zusammenfassung This study of Roman popular morality argues that we can recover much of the moral thinking of ordinary people in the early Empire. Drawing on proverbs! fables! exemplary stories and gnomic quotations! she explores how morality worked! for Roman society as a whole and for individuals. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; Part I: 2. Proverbs; 3. Fables; 4. Gnomai; 5. Exempla; 6. Patterns; Part II: 7. The language of morality; 8. Moral authorities; 9. Time and morality; Part III: 10. The importance of being miscellaneous; 11. Popular morality and high philosophy; 12. Morality inter alia; Conclusion; Appendices.

Product details

• Authors: Teresa Morgan, Morgan Teresa, Morgan Teresa
• Publisher: External catalogues UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.03.2010
• EAN: 9780521128971
• ISBN: 978-0-521-12897-1
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, General & world history, Ancient Rome, Social and cultural history, Ethics and moral philosophy, Ancient History, General and world history, Ancient history: to c 500 CE