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Pliny's Women Jacqueline M. Carlon (University of Massachusetts, Boston)

Pliny's Women By Jacqueline M. Carlon (University of Massachusetts, Boston)

Pliny's Women by Jacqueline M. Carlon (University of Massachusetts, Boston)


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Pliny's Women provides a comprehensive consideration of the many women who appear in the letters of Pliny the Younger. Jacqueline Carlon shows how important women were to Pliny's reputation and more generally to any Roman man's self-representation in the late first century.

Pliny's Women Summary

Pliny's Women: Constructing Virtue and Creating Identity in the Roman World by Jacqueline M. Carlon (University of Massachusetts, Boston)

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.

Pliny's Women Reviews

'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 Jacqueline M. Carlon (University of Massachusetts, Boston)

Jacqueline Carlon is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. In addition to awards for her teaching, Dr Carlon has received the Rallis Award from the Boston University Humanities Foundation and the 2008 Barlow-Beech Award for Distinguished Service to the Classical Association of New England, of which she was president in 2005.

Table of Contents

1. Pliny: enemy of tyrants; 2. Pliny: model protege; 3. Pliny: champion of the vulnerable; 4. Pliny: creator of the ideal wife; 5. Pliny: arbiter of virtue.

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NLS9781107647145
9781107647145
1107647142
Pliny's Women: Constructing Virtue and Creating Identity in the Roman World by Jacqueline M. Carlon (University of Massachusetts, Boston)
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Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2014-02-20
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