ISBN:
0691015716
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9780691015712
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1400810892
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9781400810895
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (234 pages)
Parallel Title:
Print version Brothers of Romulus
DDC:
306.8520937
Keywords:
Romulus Family
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Romulus 8e siècle av. J.-C Romulus
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Romulus Family
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Romulus Family
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Romulus
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Brothers Conduct of life
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Rome
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Interpersonal relations Rome
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Frères Morale pratique
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Rome
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Relations humaines Rome
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Frères dans la littérature
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Parenté (Droit romain)
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Brothers in literature
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Kinship (Roman law)
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Interpersonal relations
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Brothers Conduct of life
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Brothers in literature
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Kinship (Roman law)
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Interpersonal relations
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Brothers Conduct of life
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS ; Reference
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Brothers in literature
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Civilization
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Families
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Interpersonal relations
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Kinship (Roman law)
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Broers
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Romeinse oudheid
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Ideeëngeschiedenis
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS ; Alternative Family
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Rome Civilization
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Rome Civilisation
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Rome (Empire)
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Rome Civilization
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Rome Civilization
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Rome (Empire)
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Electronic books
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Electronic books Electronic books
Abstract:
1.At Home.Consortium and Fraternal Pietas.Inheritance Practices: Brothers and Sons.Consortium and Brothers' Roles in the Family --2.Between Brothers.Biology and Identity.Lovers and Brothers --3.In the Form.Fraternal Pietas in Public.Cicero and Quintus: A Case Study.Scipio Africanus and Scipio Asiagenus.Tiberius and Gaius Gracchus --4.On the Battlefield.Stipata Cohors: Brothers and the Mos Maiorum.Fraterna Comminus Arma: Brother against Brother.Romulus and Remus Reconsidered --5.At the Palace.
Abstract:
Stories about brothers were central to Romans' public and poetic myth making, to their experience of family life, and to their ideas about intimacy among men. Through the analysis of literary and legal representations of brothers, Cynthia Bannon attempts to re-create the context and contradictions that shaped Roman ideas about brothers. She draws together expressions of brotherly love and rivalry around and idealized notion of fraternity - fraternal pietas - the traditional Roman virtue that combined affection and duty in kinship. Romans believed that the relationship between brothers was especially close since their natural kinship made them nearly alter egos. Because of this special status, the fraternal relationship became a model for Romans of relationships between friends, lovers, and soldiers
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-212) and indexes. - Print version record
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