Bøker av Teresa (University of Oxford) Morgan

This study of Roman popular morality argues that we can recover much of the moral thinking of ordinary people in the early Empire. Drawing on proverbs, fables, exemplary stories and gnomic quotations, she explores how morality worked, for Roman society as a whole and for individuals.

An interpretation of Hellenistic and Roman education. Teresa Morgan draws on evidence from all over the classical world, including papyri from Graeco-Roman Egypt, to re-examine one of the institutions which made that world an entity, and which was one of its most influential legacies to the west.