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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Roman family"”.
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Plautus and the Sentimental Ideal of the Roman Family
… it is possible to detect a sentimental ideal of family life at Rome. She also argued that there is a significant paucity of affectionate terminology in Plautus' mid-republican works. My thesis looks for traces of a Roman sentimental ideal in Plautus' comedies. I analyse his plays, being careful …
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Jurists and Orators: Rhetorical and Legal Perspectives on the Roman Family
<p>Roman legal advocacy and legal expertise have long been viewed as two different fields of occupation with different intellectual aims and have therefore been assumed to have had little interaction with one another. More recent scholarship, however, has questioned this dichotomy between orators …
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Poetic genetics : family, sexual reproduction, and community in Lucretius' De rerum natura
My dissertation examines family, sexual reproduction, and community in Lucretius’ poem De Rerum Natura and reconsiders the importance of these topics in Lucretius’ formulation of Epicureanism for a Roman audience. I argue that Lucretius modifies Epicurus’ teachings about family and sex to render …