Knight’s Moves: The Son-in-Law in Cicero and Tacitus
The Classics Department presents "Knight’s Moves: The Son-in-Law in Cicero and Tacitus" with Emily Gowers on Monday, February 25, 2019 in Humanities B190.
The relationship between fathers and sons, real or metaphorical, is still a dominant paradigm among classicists, but this paper considers the rival contribution of Roman sons-in-law to the processes of collaboration and succession. It discusses the tensions, constraints, and obligations that soceri-generi relationships involved, and claims a significant role for sons-in-law in literary production. Cicero and Tacitus are two authors for whom the relationship played a key role in shaping realities and fantasies of advancement.
Featuring:
Emily Growers, Professor of Latin Literature University of Cambridge
Co-sponsored by:
The Department of Classics, the Centre for Humanities and the Arts and the Center for Western Civilisation, Thought and Policy.
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