When A Young Man Falls in Love: The Sexual Exploitation of Women in New Comedy

by Rosivach,Vincent J.

• ISBN13: 9780415184489
• ISBN10: 0415184487
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-05-22
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

When A Young Man Falls in Loveis an arresting and important book, which poses important questions about the dramatic portrayal of women in the Roman world.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations	vii
1 Introduction	1	(12)
2 Rape	13	(38)
1 Rapes which lead to marriage of rapist and victim	14	(9)
2 Rapes whose revelation allows marriage of victim's daughter	23	(4)
3 Premarital rapes	27	(8)
4 Characteristics of the rape motif in New Comedy	35	(7)
5 Sources of the rape motif in New Comedy	42	(4)
6 Terence's Eunuchus (The Eunuch)	46	(5)
3 Mothers and daughters	51	(25)
1 Liaisons ending in marriage of the young woman with her lover	53	(10)
2 Liaisons not ending in marriage of the young woman with her lover	63	(5)
3 Liaisons as background to the play	68	(3)
4 Liaisons refused or denied	71	(3)
5 Conclusions	74	(2)
4 Slavers and slaves	76	(31)
1 Some background	76	(2)
2 Plays ending in marriage	78	(7)
3 Plays that do not end in marriage	85	(14)
4 Menander's Epitrepontes (The Arbitration)	99	(2)
5 Conclusions	101	(6)
5 Independent women	107	(33)
1 The plays	110	(26)
2 Conclusions	136	(4)
6 Final thoughts	140	(4)
Appendix 1: Lucian's Conversations of Hetairai	144	(2)
Appendix 2	146	(7)
A Rape in other plays of Menander	146	(2)
B Rape in other Greek New Comedies	148	(1)
C Were rapists required by law to marry their victims?	148	(1)
D Rape in Caecilius' Titthe (The Wet-Nurse) and Davos	149	(1)
E Economic status in Terence's Hecyra	149	(1)
F Other uses of the word lena	150	(1)
G Menander's Kolax 120-32	151	(1)
H Some other mentions of pornoboskoillenones in New Comedy	151	(2)
Notes	153	(50)
Bibliography	203	(6)
Index of Dramatic Passages	209