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The brothers of Romulus : fraternal pietas in Roman law, literature, and society

Title
The brothers of Romulus : fraternal pietas in Roman law, literature, and society / Cynthia J. Bannon.
Author
Bannon, Cynthia Jordan.
Publication
Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1997.

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234 pages; 24 cm
Summary
  • 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.
Subject
  • Romulus, King of Rome > Family
  • Brothers > Rome > Conduct of life
  • Interpersonal relations > Rome
  • Brothers in literature
  • Kinship (Roman law)
  • Rome > Civilization
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-212) and indexes.
Contents
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.
ISBN
0691015716 (alk. paper)
LCCN
97007562
OCLC
  • 36372395
  • ocm36372395
  • SCSB-14347114
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries