LEADER 04068nam 2200709 a 450 001 9910780060203321 005 20230516211631.0 010 $a1-282-75335-5 010 $a9786612753350 010 $a1-4008-2245-9 010 $a1-4008-1089-2 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400822454 035 $a(CKB)111056486500318 035 $a(EBL)617298 035 $a(OCoLC)704257991 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000115287 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11117188 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000115287 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10007077 035 $a(PQKB)10662768 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC617298 035 $a(OCoLC)51615666 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse35993 035 $a(DE-B1597)446150 035 $a(OCoLC)979623698 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400822454 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL617298 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10031896 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL275335 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056486500318 100 $a19970203d1997 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe brothers of Romulus $efraternal Pietas in Roman law, literature, and society /$fCynthia J. Bannon 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, NJ $cPrinceton University Press$dc1997 215 $a1 online resource (248 pages) 311 0 $a0-691-01571-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [195]-212) and indexes. 327 $tFront matter --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$tOne. At Home --$tTwo. Between Brothers --$tThree. In The Forum --$tFour. On the Battlefield --$tFive. At the Palace --$tConclusion --$tBibliography --$tAuthor Index --$tSubject Index 330 $aStories 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 an 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.The fraternal relationship first took shape at home, where inheritance laws and practices fostered cooperation among brothers in managing family property and caring for relatives. Appeals to fraternal pietas in political rhetoric drew a large audience in the forum, because brothers' devotion symbolized the mos maiorum, the traditional morality that grounded Roman politics and celebrated brothers fighting together on the battlefield. Fraternal pietas and fratricide became powerful metaphors for Romans as they grappled with the experience of recurrent civil war in the late Republic and with the changes brought by empire. Mythological figures like Romulus and Remus epitomized the fraternal symbolism that pervaded Roman society and culture. In The Brothers of Romulus, Bannon combines literary criticism with historical legal analysis for a better understanding of Roman conceptions of brotherhood. 606 $aBrothers$zRome$xConduct of life 606 $aInterpersonal relations$zRome 606 $aBrothers in literature 606 $aKinship (Roman law) 607 $aRome$xCivilization 615 0$aBrothers$xConduct of life. 615 0$aInterpersonal relations 615 0$aBrothers in literature. 615 0$aKinship (Roman law) 676 $a306.85/2/0937 700 $aBannon$b Cynthia Jordan$0474914 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780060203321 996 $aThe brothers of Romulus$93826555 997 $aUNINA