From Shame to Sin: The Christian Transformation of Sexual Morality in Late Antiquity

by Kyle Harper

Book Overview

When Rome was at its height, an emperor's male beloved, victim of an untimely death, would be worshipped around the empire as a god. In this same society, the routine sexual exploitation of poor and enslaved women was abetted by public institutions. Four centuries later, a Roman emperor commanded the mutilation of men caught in same-sex affairs, even as he affirmed the moral dignity of women without any civic claim to honor. The gradual transformation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674660013
• ISBN13: 9780674660014
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"