REPRESENTATION AND THE VOCABULARY OF ADULTERY IN ROMAN SATIRE IN THEIR SOCIAL, HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXT Cover Image

ПРЕДСТАВА И ЛЕКСИКА ПРЕЉУБЕ У РИМСКОЈ САТИРИ И ЊИХОВ ДРУШТВЕНИ, ИСТОРИЈСКИ И КУЛТУРНИ КОНТЕКСТ
REPRESENTATION AND THE VOCABULARY OF ADULTERY IN ROMAN SATIRE IN THEIR SOCIAL, HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXT

Author(s): Milena Joksimović Pajević
Subject(s): History, Language and Literature Studies, Gender Studies, Sociology
Published by: Матица српска
Keywords: adultery; satire; emancipation of women; Horace; Juvenal;

Summary/Abstract: At all the stages of European history, adultery has been considered a serious offence that jeopardizes the basic cell of society – family. As society has evolved, significance and the role of the family within it changed, as well as the attitudes towards marriage and adultery. This article aims to demonstrate, by analysis of Horace’s and Juvenal’s satires, how the emancipation of Roman women altered the vision of the adultery in Roman satire and how these changes have reflected on the language of this genre.

  • Issue Year: 2010
  • Issue No: 130
  • Page Range: 7-20
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Serbian
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