Oltre il confine della domus: Giulia maggiore e altre donne romane negli spazi urbani e in viaggio
This paper aims at investigating a particular variant of the concept of boundary relatively to the world of Roman women. For them the limen, the threshold of their house, is ideally and culturally their limes, the boundary beyond which their action can no longer be free, but is controlled according...
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| description | This paper aims at investigating a particular variant of the concept of boundary relatively to the world of Roman women. For them the limen, the threshold of their house, is ideally and culturally their limes, the boundary beyond which their action can no longer be free, but is controlled according to precise ethical canons that prevent women from participating in political life or moving freely outside the Urbs. Through the analysis of literary texts of the Republican and Augustan ages and beyond, locutions such as limen, domi, intra vs. extra, ultra, clearly mark this marginality imposed by mos maiorum. A transgression of such limits implies an abdication of the main traditional female values, such as modesty and decency, and therefore damages the honour of women. The point is exemplified by the case of Giulia major exiled by her father Augustus with a public accusation of immoral behaviour.
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| spelling | doaj-art-1d5e180b9a3143c1a2d2b52d742ba2fe2025-08-20T02:34:28ZengFirenze University PressStoria delle Donne1826-75131826-75052023-08-0119Oltre il confine della domus: Giulia maggiore e altre donne romane negli spazi urbani e in viaggioRita Degl’Innocenti Pierini0Università degli Studi di FirenzeThis paper aims at investigating a particular variant of the concept of boundary relatively to the world of Roman women. For them the limen, the threshold of their house, is ideally and culturally their limes, the boundary beyond which their action can no longer be free, but is controlled according to precise ethical canons that prevent women from participating in political life or moving freely outside the Urbs. Through the analysis of literary texts of the Republican and Augustan ages and beyond, locutions such as limen, domi, intra vs. extra, ultra, clearly mark this marginality imposed by mos maiorum. A transgression of such limits implies an abdication of the main traditional female values, such as modesty and decency, and therefore damages the honour of women. The point is exemplified by the case of Giulia major exiled by her father Augustus with a public accusation of immoral behaviour. https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/sdd/article/view/15015limen/ limesthreshold as female boundarymodestytraditional ethic rulesexile |
| spellingShingle | Rita Degl’Innocenti Pierini Oltre il confine della domus: Giulia maggiore e altre donne romane negli spazi urbani e in viaggio Storia delle Donne limen/ limes threshold as female boundary modesty traditional ethic rules exile |
| title | Oltre il confine della domus: Giulia maggiore e altre donne romane negli spazi urbani e in viaggio |
| title_full | Oltre il confine della domus: Giulia maggiore e altre donne romane negli spazi urbani e in viaggio |
| title_fullStr | Oltre il confine della domus: Giulia maggiore e altre donne romane negli spazi urbani e in viaggio |
| title_full_unstemmed | Oltre il confine della domus: Giulia maggiore e altre donne romane negli spazi urbani e in viaggio |
| title_short | Oltre il confine della domus: Giulia maggiore e altre donne romane negli spazi urbani e in viaggio |
| title_sort | oltre il confine della domus giulia maggiore e altre donne romane negli spazi urbani e in viaggio |
| topic | limen/ limes threshold as female boundary modesty traditional ethic rules exile |
| url | https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/sdd/article/view/15015 |
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