Sexual virtue on display : the cults of pudicitia and honours for women -- Traditional narratives and Livy's Roman history -- Valerius Maximus : the complexities of past as paradigm -- Subversive genres : testing the limits of pudicitia -- Declamation : What part of 'no' do you understand? -- Sexual virtue on display II : oratory and the speeches of Cicero -- Imperial narrative, imperial interventions
Summary
The untranslatable concept of pudicitia (broadly meaning 'sexual virtue') is crucial to understanding Roman sexuality. Close reading of Latin literary texts reveals that, ever controversial and unsettled, it formed the heart of several key Roman debates, such as that concerning the difference between men and women
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 366-386) and indexes
