
Published online:
24 May 2018
Published in print:
28 November 2017
Online ISBN:
9780300231311
Print ISBN:
9780300227727
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Augustus and the “Family Values Movement” of the Ancient World Augustus and the “Family Values Movement” of the Ancient World
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Musonius Rufus: Internalizing Augustus’s Marriage Reforms Musonius Rufus: Internalizing Augustus’s Marriage Reforms
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Galen: Medicine and the Social Order Galen: Medicine and the Social Order
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Achilles Tatius: Pleasure in the Service of Empire Achilles Tatius: Pleasure in the Service of Empire
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Conclusion Conclusion
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Chapter
One Augustus and the Roman Empire: The Birth of an Ideology
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1–38
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Published:November 2017
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Wheeler-Reed, David, 'Augustus and the Roman Empire: The Birth of an Ideology', Regulating Sex in the Roman Empire: Ideology, the Bible, and the Early Christians (New Haven, CT , 2017; online edn, Yale Scholarship Online, 24 May 2018), https://doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300227727.003.0001, accessed 5 May 2025.
Abstract
This chapter focuses on the ideology of Augustus with respect to his marriage legislation and the illusion it created of a values crisis in ancient Rome. It also examines the writings of Musonius Rufus, Galen, and Achilles Tatius’s novel Leucippe and Clitophon. It concludes that procreation was the reigning ideological state apparatus in the Roman Empire, and that Augustus’s marriage legislation is still affecting our sexual ethics in the modern world.
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Theology
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