Models from the past in Roman culture : a world of exempla

1. Verfasser: Roller, Matthew B. 1966- , [VerfasserIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Cambridge New York : Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Umfang/Format: 1 online resource.
ISBN: 9781316677353
Schlagworte:
Rome > Sources > Biography.
Role models > Rome > History > Sources.
Rome > Social life and customs > History > Sources.
Memory > Social aspects > Rome.
Inhalte/Bestandteile: 2 Datensätze
Online-Zugang: Online available
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction : the work of examples
  • Horatius Cocles : commemorating and imitating a great deed
  • Cloelia : timelessness and gender
  • Appius Claudius Caecus : positive and negative exemplarity
  • Gaius Duilius : exemplarity and innovation
  • Fabius Cunctator : competing judgments and moral change
  • Cornelia : an exemplary matrona among the Gracchi
  • Cicero's house and "aspiring to kingship"
  • Conclusion : exemplarity and stoicism.

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