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Author: Francesca Romana Berno 

In classical Latin, luxuria means ‘desire for luxury’; it is linked with the ideas of excess and deviation from a standard. It is in most cases labelled as a vice which contrasts with the innate frugal nature of the Romans. Latin authors do not see it as endemic but as an import from the East in the aftermath of military conquests—and as a cause of fatal decline. Following these etymological and semantic origins, Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History discusses the influence of Greek culture on the Roman concept and the peculiar characteristics of Roman luxuria. It analyses Roman views on luxuria through close readings in historical order from Cato the Elder, who regards luxuria as the opposite of the ideal Roman way of life, to the Christian poet Prudentius, who represents it in an allegorical fight with Sobriety. 

Roman Luxuria: A Literary and Cultural History 1st Table of contents:

1. What Does Luxuria Mean?
1.1 Etymology: Twisted, Luxuriant, Luxurious: In a Word, Excessive
1.2 Philosophy: Luxuria within the Stoic Taxonomy of Vices (and the Platonic Soul)
1.3 Semantics: A Word for Many Vices; Luxuria as the Opposite of a ‘Truly’ Roman Way of Life
1.4 Pre-History and History of Luxuria: Greek Influences and Roman Specifics
1.5 Concluding Remarks
2. Luxuria: A Short History
2.1 Beginnings
2.2 Fixing the Paradigm of Luxuria
2.3 Luxuria as a Corrupting Force of Roman Society: Sallust and Livy
2.4 Augustan Age: The Removal of Luxuria
2.5 Luxuria’s Exemplarity: Valerius Maximus and Pliny (with Martial)
2.6 Satirical Voices: Those Who Do Not Call Vices by Name (Persius, Juvenal, and Petronius)
2.7 Rhetoric (Seneca the Elder and Quintilian): Luxuria between Fathers and Sons
2.8 An Eccentric Epic: Lucan
2.9 Jurists against Luxuria: The Sumptuary Laws
3. Seneca’s Luxuria
3.1 Seneca’s Inconsistency in Tacitus and Cassius Dio
3.2 De vita beata: Seneca’s Defence against Charges of Luxuria
3.3 Seneca and Cynic Frugality: The Case of Demetrius
4. Seneca against Luxuria
4.1 Ingeniosa Luxuria as the Archenemy of a Philosophical Life
4.2 The World Upside Down: Saturnalia (EM 18) and Night-Owls (EM 122)
4.3 Luxuria’s Location: The Stomach (EM 77, 78, 95)
4.4 Luxuria at Home: Baias (EM 51) and Architectural Luxury (EM 89)
4.5 Luxuria’s Friends: Related Professions and Vices
4.6 Luxuria on Stage: Apicius (Helv. 10), Mark Antony (EM 83), and Maecenas (EM 114)
4.7 Frugality on Stage: Scipio Africanus (EM 86) and Q. Aelius Tubero (EM 95)
4.8 Can You Recover from Luxuria? Tranq. 1.9 and EM 112
4.9 Scientific Luxuria: Moral Digressions in Seneca’s Natural Questions
5. From Luxuria to Lust
5.1 Pliny the Younger: Condoning Luxuria
5.2 Suetonius and Tacitus: Luxuria as an Emperor’s Vice
5.3 Luxuria Turning into Lust: Apuleius
5.4 An Overview of Tertullian (and Augustine): Luxuria against Pudicitia
5.5 A Final Allegory: Prudentius
5.6 Conclusion

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