Roman Manliness

"Virtus" and the Roman Republic

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Some studies of ancient Roman masculinities have concentrated on the private aspects of the subject, particularly sexuality, and have drawn conclusions from a narrow field of reference, usually rhetorical practice. In contrast, this 2006 book examines the public and the most important aspect of Roman masculinity: manliness as represented by the concept of virtus. Using traditional historical, philological, and archaeological analyses, together with the methods of socio-linguistics and gender studies, it presents a comprehensive picture of how Roman manliness developed from the middle to the late Republic. Arguing that virtus was not, in essence, a moral concept, Myles McDonnell shows how the semantic range of the word, together with the manly ideal that it embodied, were altered by Greek cultural ideas; and how Roman manliness was contested in the religion, culture, and politics of the late Republic.

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'For historians, therefore, the study of ethics is now the study of a basic building block of the Greek and Roman world, and McDonnell ... [has] made a major contribution to the field.' Times Literary Supplement

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List of Illustrations	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
List of Abbreviations	p. xvii
Introduction - Manliness and Virtus	p. 1
Manliness as Courage in Early Latin	p. 12
Virtus and Early Latin	p. 12
Plautus and Roman Comedy	p. 16
Early Latin Inscriptions	p. 33
Early Latin Epic, Tragedy, and History	p. 44
M. Porcius Cato	p. 50
Virtus and Martial Courage in the Middle Republic	p. 59
Hellenization and [characters not reproducible] - Semantic Borrowing	p. 72
Bilingualism and Semantic Calque	p. 72
Virtus and Fortuna	p. 84
Virtute Deum	p. 95
[characters not reproducible] and Manly Virtus	p. 105
Semantic Borrowing and Popular Theater	p. 105
Virtus as Human Excellence	p. 107
Ethical Virtus	p. 110
Virtus and the Canonical "Virtues"	p. 128
Virtus as a Political Value	p. 134
Visual Representations of Virtus	p. 142
Visualization of Abstract Concepts in Ancient Rome	p. 142
Virtus as the Armed Amazon	p. 146
Virtus and the Mounted Warrior	p. 149
The Equestrian Image in Republican Rome	p. 154
The Boundaries of Manliness	p. 159
Virtus, Slaves, and Foreigners	p. 159
Virtus and Women	p. 161
Virtus and Sexuality	p. 165
Fatherhood, Family, and Wealth - Virtus and Private Life	p. 168
Man and Boy - Patria Potestas and Virtus	p. 173
Manliness in Republican Rome	p. 181
Teaching Manliness	p. 181
Aristocrats and Horses	p. 185
Institutional Constraints on Displays of Manliness	p. 195
Divine Virtus - M. Claudius Marcellus and Roman Politics	p. 206
Manliness and Politics	p. 206
Abstract Deities and Divine Virtus	p. 209
Virtus and Honos	p. 212
Breaking the Constraints	p. 228
Marcellus' Successors	p. 235
Virtus Contested	p. 241
The Experience of War	p. 242
Equites Equo Publico	p. 248
Cultural Change and Hellenism	p. 259
The New Man of Virtus	p. 265
Marius and the Gods	p. 267
Competing Definitions of Manliness	p. 271
Virtus and the Legacy of Marius	p. 290
Virtus Imperatoris	p. 293
Virtus in the Late Republic	p. 293
The Virtus of Pompey	p. 295
Virtus and Caesar's Commentaries	p. 300
Manliness Redefined	p. 320
Virtus and the New Man	p. 320
Imperator Togatus - Cicero's Claim to Virtus	p. 332
The Dual Nature of Virtus in Sallust	p. 356
Epilogue - Roman Manliness and the Principate	p. 385
Bibliography	p. 391
Index Locorum	p. 433
General Index	p. 467
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