The discourse of marriage in the Greco-Roman world /

The famous polymath Plutarch often discussed the relationship between spouses in his works, including Marriage Advice, Dialogue on Love and many of the Parallel Lives. In this collection, leading scholars explore the marital views expressed in Plutarch's works and the art, philosophy and litera...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Beneker, Jeffrey (Editor), Tsouvala, Georgia (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, [2020]
Series:	Wisconsin studies in classics.
Subjects:	Plutarch > Criticism and interpretation. Classical literature > History and criticism. Marriage in literature. Marriage > Greece > History > To 1500. Marriage > Rome > History > To 1500.

Table of Contents:

A discourse of marriage in the Greco-Roman world / Georgia Tsouvala
Wedding connections in Greek and Roman art / Rebecca H. Sinos
Violence in the Roman wedding / Karen Klaiber Hersch
Plutarch's Marriage Advice and the tradition of the poetic epithalamium / Paolo Di Meo
Epicurus on marriage / Geert Roskam
The impossible feminism of "Seneca, On Marriage": style and the woman in Jerome, Against Jovinian 1 / Alex Dressler
Marriage and animal exemplarity in Plutarch / Katarzyna Jazdzewska
Death is not the end: spousal devotion in Plutarch's portraits of Camma, Porcia, and Cornelia / Jeffrey Beneker
Erotic desire and the desire to marry in the ancient Greek novels / Silvia Montiglio.