The rhetoric of gender terms : 'man', 'woman', and the portrayal of character in Latin prose /

The rhetoric of gender terms : 'man', 'woman', and the portrayal of character in Latin prose /

The aim of this work is to recover classical Roman assumptions about women on the basis of the surviving linguistic data. The author provides a control to her study of the connotations of the major Latin words for women in the form of a corresponding examination of how Roman authors use the various...

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Main Author: Santoro L'Hoir, Francesca.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; New York : Brill, 1992.

Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements 120.
Mnemosyne Supplements Online, Volumes 1-203, ISBN: 9789004381049.

Subjects:

Latin prose literature > History and criticism.
Rhetoric, Ancient.
Sex > Terminology.
Characters and characteristics in literature.
Latin prose literature.
Literature.
Sex.
Sex role in literature.
Rome > In literature.
Rome (Empire)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Terminology.

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Call Number: PA6081 .S25 1992

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material /
  • Francesca Santoro L'hoir
  • Introduction /
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  • Cicero's masculine terminology and rhetorical convention /
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  • The obscene mulier and the not-heard femina /
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  • Sallust: factional politics through the looking-glass /
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  • Ab Urbe Condita: when viri were VIRI /
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  • Livian ladies: cardboard characters in feminine attire /
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  • Velleius Paterculus: historicus patrioticus /
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  • Tacitus: the tradition and its breaking /
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  • C. Plinius Secundus: man of letters /
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  • Suetonius: Ciceronian shorthand /
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  • Petronius and Apuleius: the good; the bad; and the nequissimi /
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  • Conclusion /
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  • Select Bibliography /
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  • Index /
  • Francesca Santoro L'hoir
  • Supplements to Mnemosyne.