UnRoman Romans (McElduff)
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UnRoman Romans is a reader on socially stigmatized groups in ancient Rome: actors athletes, dancers, sex workers, and sexual non-conformists. This reader was created as part of a class and uses student-scholars who contributed parts of the reader as a course assignment. It contains out of copyright and original translations of ancient texts, along with introductions, glossaries, images and other explanatory material. This book is intended for use in upper-level academic studies and contains a number of very disturbing passages.
Front Matter
1: Dress, Posture, and Self-Presentation: Men
2: Dress, Posture, and Self-Presentation: Women
3: Entertainers
4: Witches, Warlocks, and Magic
5: Immigrants and Foreigners in the City of Rome
6: Sexuality and Gender
7: Sex Workers
8: Exile and Exiles
9: Religion
10: Criminals and Gangs
11: unRoman Families and Relationships
12: Emperors and Empresses of Rome
Back Matter
Thumbnail: A late Republican banquet scene in a fresco from Herculaneum, Italy, c. 50 BC; the woman wears a transparent silk gown while the man to the left raises a rhyton drinking vessel. (Public Domain; unknown author via Wikipedia)