Like Man, Like Woman
Like Man, Like Woman Modern scholarship often discusses Roman women in terms of their difference from their male counterparts, frequently defining them as 'other'. There are two voices, however: a…
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Like Man, Like Woman
Modern scholarship often discusses Roman women in terms of their difference from their male counterparts, frequently defining them as 'other'. There are two voices, however: a traditional, ideal voice and an individual, realistic voice. This book shows how Roman male writers at the turn of the first century actually described women as not so different from men: the same qualities and abilities pertaining to the domains of parenthood, intellect and morals are ascribed by writers to women as well as to men.
How can we interpret the paradoxical information about Roman women given by the male-authored texts? This creates a duality of representations of women, which recurs across literary genres and reflects a duality of mentality. How does this duality of mentality inform us about gender roles and gender hierarchy?This work analyses well-known, as well as overlooked, passages from the