The Politics of Immorality in Ancient Rome
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: May 9, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9780521893893
Subjects: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; World history: BCE to c 500 CE; History: World; History; History - General History; Latin; Ancient - General; Roman Literature; History / Ancient / General; Latin literature--History and criticism; Literary Criticism-Roman Literature
First sentence: In 62 BCE, a young and politically ambitious Roman aristocrat, Publius Clodius, is said to have disguised himself as a women in order to infiltrate the rites of the Bona Dea which it was sacrilege for men to observe.