Sex and power in Rome

By: Megan, Becky

If we were to believe Ovid, the Romans magnified love and sexuality. But they were not as free as their elegies, their erotic poems and their statues make us think. In this book, Paul Veyne provides us with a totally different image of Rome: that of a society full of taboos, in which aristocratic refinement coexists with brutality; the republican virtue and the violence erected in spectacle; between justice and the law of Talion. In this way, the author shows us a world full of lights and shadows and reveals the many facets of the Romans in relation to politics, money, couples, sexuality, life and death.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0B9QMHCR9
• ISBN13: 9798846914155
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"