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Cato the Younger
Marcus Porcius Cato (the Younger) is most famous for being Julius Caesar's nemesis. His sustained antagonism was in large part responsible for pushing the Romans towards civil war. Yet Cato never wanted war even though he used the threat of violence against Caesar. This strategic gamble misfired as Caesar, instead of yielding, marched on Rome, hurling the Republic into a bloody civil war. Refusing to inhabit a world ruled by Caesar, Cato took his own life. Although the Roman historian Sallust identified Cato and Caesar as the two most outstanding men of their age, modern scholars have tended to dismiss Cato as a cantankerous conservative who, while colorful, was not a critical player in the ...
The Brothers of Romulus
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 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, t...
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Gender Studies
As the first major encyclopedia of its kind, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Gender Studies (OEBGS) is the go-to source for scholars and students undertaking original research in the field. Extending the work of nineteenth and twentieth century feminist scholarship and more recent queer studies, the Encyclopedia seeks to advance the scholarly conversation by systematically exploring the ways in which gender is constructed in the diverse texts, cultures, and readers that constitute "the world of the Bible." With contributions from leading scholars in gender and biblical studies as well as contemporary gender theorists, classicists, archaeologists, and ancient historians, this compreh...
Fueled By Lust: Kyros and Nierius (Fueled By Lust 14)
[Siren Menage Amour: Erotic Romance, Menage a Trois, Romantic Suspense, Science Fiction, MFM, HEA] Twins Kyros and Nierius Rusina meet their perfect female in a dream. When using an ancestral technique to physically transport them to her, a clueless friend yanks them away before confirming the location of their new mate. Time to beg for Cato’s help…but not without a mind-bending twist and personal cost. Danielle Bach thinks she’s dreaming. How else could the two hunks she’d stumbled across in a beautiful mystic meadow be standing at the foot of her bed? Determined not to waste a second before the alarm clock ruins everything, she takes a titillating erotic tumble with the Greek sex gods claiming to be aliens from another planet. Poof! They disappear. So why the hell is their underwear still on her bedroom floor? Imagine the shock as the sexy briefs dissipate into little golden orbs and float away? Crap! Was that real? Book 14 in the FBL Series yanks you right back into the lives of the sexy, loveable warriors. Note: This is Book 14 in the series. The story is not a stand-alone.
