UnRoman Romans (McElduff)
- Page ID
- 109058
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)