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P/H/23. The attitudes to women and marriage in ancient Rome

WORDS:
2000
DATE:
2005
PRICE:
29.99 GBP

The paper looks at the features of satire as a genre that emerged in ancient Rome. A brief review of rhetoric as an art of public speech is given. The study focuses on the misogamist and misogynist overtones of Juvenals satirical writing giving the summary of his ideas about marriage and women. Historical, social and ethical aspects of Roman life are described.

 

KEYWORDS: attitudes, women, marriage, ancient, rome,