![]() ![]() ![]() Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. POPULAR MORALITY IN T H E E A R LY RO M A N E M PI R E T E R E SA M O RG A NĬAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo, Delhi Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 8RU, UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York Information on this title: © Teresa Morgan 2007 This publication is in copyright. She is the author of Literate Education in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds (1998). ![]() t eres a m orga n is University Lecturer in Ancient History at Oxford and a Fellow of Oriel College. Nevertheless it could and did hold together as an ethical community, which was a significant factor in its socio-political success. The Roman Empire incorporated numerous overlapping groups, whose ideas varied according to social status, geography, gender and many other factors. It traces the relationship between popular morality, high philosophy, and the ethical vocabulary of documents and inscriptions. It explores the wide range of authorities (natural and socially constructed, absolute and negotiable) which were invoked in support of moral ideas and actions, and shows how different ethics appealed to different authorities. It analyses the content of sayings and stories to show which ideas and practices were central to Roman morality, which peripheral, which widely accepted or contested. ![]() Her study draws on proverbs, fables, exemplary stories and gnomic quotations to explore how morality worked as a system for Roman society as a whole and in individual lives. In the first book-length study of Roman popular morality, Dr Morgan argues that we can recover much of the moral thinking of people up and down the Empire. Morality is one of the fundamental structures of any society, enabling complex groups to form, negotiate their internal differences and persist through time. P O P U L A R M O R A L I T Y I N T H E E A R LY RO M A N E M P I R E ![]()
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