Pliny’s “Role Models of Both Sexes”: Gender and exemplarity in the Letters
Pliny’s “Role Models of Both Sexes”: Gender and exemplarity in the Letters
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普林尼的《两性的榜样》：书信中的性别与典范
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10.54563/eugesta.885
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发表时间：
2014
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通讯作者：
R. Langlands
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作者：
R. Langlands
小普林尼的书信以其对杰出女性的描绘和对榜样的深思熟虑而闻名。本文探讨了普林尼在其新的典范框架下，在《家书》中对女性作为道德例证的创新刻画，以及他对传统罗马性别刻板印象的挑战。在普林尼和他的朋友们钦佩和效仿的同时代人中，既有男性也有女性，在他的信中，他系统地在抽象美德的层面(如果不是在社会角色层面上)淡化了性别的差异。模范男性和女性被认为具有相同的道德品质和相同的修辞能力。事实上，普林尼故意颠覆了早期作家的传统性别比喻，以引起人们对他对两性道德平等的新强调。普林尼对女性Exempla的治疗大大发展了在早期书信作品中已经明显的可能性，使他有别于他的朋友塔西图斯和他的老师昆蒂利安，并可能对后来的作家产生影响，甚至可能在罗马男人和女人的生活中。
The Letters of Pliny the Younger are notable both for their portraits of outstanding women and for their thoughtful treatment of exemplarity. This article explores Pliny’s innovative portrayal in his Letters of women as moral exempla within his new framework of exemplarity, and the challenge he poses to traditional Roman gender stereotyping. Among the contemporaries whom Pliny and his friends admire and emulate there are many female exempla as well as male, and in his letters he systematically plays down the difference between the sexes at the level of abstract virtue (if not at the level of social role). Exemplary men and women are represented as sharing the same moral qualities and as having the same rhetorical force. Indeed Pliny deliberately subverts the traditional gender tropes found in earlier authors in order to draw attention to his new emphasis on the moral equivalence of the sexes. Pliny’s treatment of female exempla substantially develops possibilities already evident in earlier epistolary works, sets him apart from his friend Tacitus and his teacher Quintilian, and may have been influential on subsequent authors, and even perhaps in the lives of Roman men and women.
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2012
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作者：
Gibson
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Gibson