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

Carlon, Jacqueline M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521761328 ISBN 13: 9780521761321

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Synopsis

Pliny's Women provides a comprehensive consideration of the many women who appear in the letters of Pliny the Younger. Combining detailed prosopography with close literary analysis, Jacqueline Carlon examines the identities of the women whom Pliny includes and how they and the men with whom they are associated contribute both to this presentation of exemplary Romans and particularly to his own self-promotion. Virtually all of the named women in Pliny's nine-book corpus are considered. They form six distinct groups: those associated with opposition to the principate; the family of Pliny's mentor, Corellius Rufus; his own family members; women involved in testamentary disputes; ideal wives; and women of unseemly character. Detailed analysis of each letter mentioning women includes the identity of its recipient and everyone named within, its disposition within the collection, Pliny's language and style, and its significance to our perception of the changing social fabric of the early principate.

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Product Description:

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

Review:

'Jacqueline Carlon's book on Pliny's women will surely become an important point of reference for any study on the role of elite women in Imperial times as well as on Pliny's character.' Arctos

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0521761328
• ISBN 13: 9780521761321
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 280