The Virgin and the Bride
Subtitle: Idealized Womanhood in Late Antiquity
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: May 15, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780674939509
Subjects: Early Church; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Women's studies; Women In Literature; Latin Literature; History; History - General History; Latin; Literary Criticism; Women's Studies - General; Ancient - Rome; Women's Studies - History; Religion / Church History; Ancient - General
First sentence: "The first without compunction violates his wife, his serving-women, and his attendants, whether young (paedagogia, capillati) or old (exoleti); the second, no longer having the power to give orders outside, in the wider society, no longer has the strength to give them at all: of necessity, he invents for himself a conjugal and sexual morality."