Jacqueline M. Carlon, Pliny's Women: Constructing Virtue and Creating Identity in the Roman World, Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. ix, 270.
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Recension par Peter Keegan (Macquarie University, Sydney) dans Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2010.02.59.
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Présentation de l'éditeur:
Pliny's Women offers a comprehensive consideration of themany women who appear in the letters of Pliny the Younger. Combiningdetailed prosopography with close literary analysis, Jacqueline M.Carlon examines the identities of the women whom Pliny includes and howthey and the men with whom they are associated contribute both to thispresentation of exemplary Romans and particularly to his ownself-promotion. Virtually all of the named women in Pliny's nine-bookcorpus are considered. They form six distinct groups: those associatedwith opposition to the principate; the family of Pliny's mentor,Corellius Rufus; his own family members; women involved in testamentarydisputes; ideal wives; and women of unseemly character. Detailedanalysis of each letter mentioning women includes the identity of itsrecipient and everyone named within, its disposition within thecollection, Pliny's language and style, and its significance to ourperception of the changing social fabric of the early principate.
Jacqueline M. Carlon is Assistant Professor ofClassics at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. In addition toawards for her teaching, Dr. Carlon has received the Rallis Award fromthe Boston University Humanities Foundation and the 2008 Barlow-BeachAward for Distinguished Service to the Classical Association of NewEngland, of which she was president in 2005.
Table des matières:
Preface vii
List of Abbreviations ix
Introduction 1
Pliny's Life and Career 4
The Epistulae 6
The Question of Self-Representation 8
Methodology 12
Classification of Pliny's Women 14
1 Pliny: Enemy of Tyrants 18
The Stoic Opposition to the Principate 21
The Letters 36
Conclusion 64
2 Pliny: Model Protégé 68
The Corellii 70
The Letters 76
Conclusion 96
3 Pliny: Champion of the Vulnerable 100
The Women of Pliny's Family 103
Women and Legacies 109
The Letters 116
Conclusion 136
4 Pliny: Creator of the Ideal Wife 138
Pliny's Predecessors and His Panegyricus 139
Pliny's Trifold Model of the Ideal Wife 146
The Ideal Betrothed 148
The Ideal Young Wife 157
The Ideal Matron 175
Conclusion 182
5 Pliny: Arbiter of Virtue 186
Unseemly Women 187
The Letters 191
Conclusion 211
Conclusions 214
Appendix A Stemmata 221
Appendix B Women in Pliny's Letters 223
Appendix C Frequency of Personal Pronouns and Possessive Adjectives in Pliny's Letters 227
Bibliography 241
Index Locorum 263
General Index 267