Author: Gonzalo Fontana Elboj, Departamento de Ciencias de la Antigüedad (Department of Sciences of Antiquity), Universidad de Zaragoza (University of Zaragoza) - OCRID, ResearchGate

Abstract: »This paper aims to reconstruct the presence of pueri delicati in the household of Pliny the Younger. Although Pliny makes no explicit reference to the issue in his epistolary, an analysis of some of his letters shows that, probably, he, like many wealthy Romans of his time, did not refrain from the pleasure afforded by his impubescent slaves. In connection with this issue, the present study reveals some possible strategies of resistance that these children might have used against a reality that, presumably, was not as pleasant to them as it was to their master.« (Source: Studia Philologica Valentina)

Contents:

	Abstract (p. 139)
	Resumen (p. 139)
	The pueri delicati, an uncomfortable reality of the Roman household (p. 139)
	1. Pliny’s attitude towards sexual relations with the pueri delicati (p. 142)
	2. Only a literary secretary? (p. 144)
	3. A wonderful tale (p. 145)
		3.1. A hypothesis about the meaning of the story (p. 146)
		3.2. Return to Pliny’s home (p. 152)
	4. Conclusions (p. 155)
	5. Bibliography (p. 155)

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