Pliny''s Women - Constructing Virtue and Creating Identity in the Roman World

Pliny's Women provides a comprehensive consideration of the many women who appear in the letters of Pliny the Younger.

List of contents

1. Pliny: enemy of tyrants; 2. Pliny: model protégé; 3. Pliny: champion of the vulnerable; 4. Pliny: creator of the ideal wife; 5. Pliny: arbiter of virtue.

About the author

Jacqueline Carlon is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. In addition to awards for her teaching, Dr Carlon has received the Rallis Award from the Boston University Humanities Foundation and the 2008 Barlow-Beech Award for Distinguished Service to the Classical Association of New England, of which she was president in 2005.

Summary

Pliny's Women provides a comprehensive consideration of the many women who appear in the letters of Pliny the Younger. Jacqueline Carlon shows how important women were to Pliny's reputation and more generally to any Roman man's self-representation in the late first century.

Product details

• Authors: Jacqueline M. Carlon, Jacqueline M. (University of Massachusetts Carlon, Carlon Jacqueline M.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.02.2014
• EAN: 9781107647145
• ISBN: 978-1-107-64714-5
• No. of pages: 282
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Latin, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval