Abstract

MUNOZ GARCIA DE ITURROSPE, Ma. Teresa. Public Virtues in Latin Funerary Inscriptions as the Expression of Women’s Strength and Eloquence. Nova tellus [online]. 2016, vol.34, n.1, pp.71-96. ISSN 0185-3058.  https://doi.org/10.19130/iifl.nt.2016.33.2.709.

Latin epitaphs dedicated to women of all condition often praise the virtues, mainly domestic, of some exemplary puellae and matronae. However, masculine values considered like strength, sense of justice, or eloquence are occasionally underlined in carmina epigraphica as well as in prose inscriptions, with a mainly consoling aim which, above all in Christian inscriptions, is used to complete a new model of behavior.

Keywords : Latin Epigraphy; Women; Epitaphs; Rhetoric; Praise.

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