MARRIAGE IN THE ROMAN IMPERIAL PERIOD
MARRIAGE IN THE ROMAN IMPERIAL PERIOD Konstantinos Mantas (Athens) POLIS: Revista de ideas y formas políticas de la Antigüedad Clásica, 11 (1999), pp.…
Contraception and Abortion in the Greco-Roman World
The author discusses the validity of the claim that, in Antiquity, effective contraceptives and abortifacients were available, were widely used, and their use was responsible for the decline of population in certain periods.
An Ancient Love Poem: the Book of Canticle
Are there two or three main participants, and settles on two, King Solomon and the Shulammite? Is the book one unified poem or a collection of love lyrics?
Virginity in Ancient Mesopotamia
‘A virgin body has the freshness of secret springs, the morning sheen of an unopened flower, the orient luster of a pearl on which the sun has never shone. Grotto, temple, sanctuary, secret garden – man, like the child, is fascinated by enclosed and shadowy places not yet animated by any consciousness, which wait to be given a soul: what he alone is to take and to penetrate seems to be in truth created by him.’
Some reflections on ancient Greek attitudes to children as revealed in selected literature of the pre-Christian era
This study examines the ancient Greeks’ attitudes to children during the Classical and Hellenistic periods. The investigation is limited to literary sources in selected pre-Christian texts.
Roman Monogamy
Mating in Rome was polygynous; marriage was monogamous.
The Auxilia in Roman Britain and the Two Germanies from Augustus to Caracalla: Family, Religion and
This thesis examines the cultural and social relationships cultivated by ethnically diverse auxiliary soldiers in the western Roman empire. These soldiers were enrolled in the Roman auxilia, military units that drew primarily on the non-Roman subjects of the empire for their recruits in numbers that equaled the legionaries.
Augustus and the Governors' Wives
Until the last century of the Roman Republic it was an established principle that officials assigned provinces outside of Italy would not be accompanied there by their wives, whose duty was to remain behind to look after their husbands’ interests.
Sexual virtue on display I: the cults of pudicitia and honours for women
This book begins with a chapter about pudicitia as publicly celebrated and rewarded in Roman society. A striking aspect of pudicitia was its association with public and visual display by married women to rhe community, both through their appearance and demeanour and through their cultivation of pudicitia as a goddess.
A Study of Fulvia
Who was Fulvia? Was she the politically aggressive and dominating wife of Mark Antony as Cicero and Plutarch describe her? Or was she a loyal mother and wife, as Asconius and Appian suggest?