Popular Morality in the Early Roman Empire

by Teresa Morgan

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521128978
• ISBN13: 9780521128971
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 396 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"