Popular morality in the early Roman Empire / Teresa Morgan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morgan, Teresa, 1968- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics--Rome.

Ethics.

Philosophy, Ancient.

Rome--Moral conditions.

Rome.

Rome--History--Empire, 30 B.C.-284 A.D.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 380 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Morality is one of the fundamental structures of any society, enabling complex groups to form, negotiate their internal differences and persist through time. In the first book-length study of Roman popular morality, Dr Morgan argues that we can recover much of the moral thinking of people across the Empire. Her study draws on proverbs, fables, exemplary stories and gnomic quotations, to explore how morality worked as a system for Roman society as a whole and in individual lives. She examines the range of ideas and practices and their relative importance, as well as questions of authority and the relationship with high philosophy and the ethical vocabulary of documents and inscriptions. The Roman Empire incorporated numerous overlapping groups, whose ideas varied according to social status, geography, gender and many other factors. Nevertheless it could and did hold together as an ethical community, which was a significant factor in its socio-political success.

Contents:

Proverbs

Fables

Gnomai

Exempla

Patterns

The language of morality

Moral authorities

Time and morality

The importance of being miscellaneous

Popular morality and high philosophy

Morality.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-19845-3

1-139-81070-7

1-107-31672-3

1-107-32211-1

1-107-31768-1

1-107-31861-0

1-299-39979-7

1-107-31576-X

0-511-88946-1

0-511-59739-8