The article deals with women’s responsibility in adulterium and stuprum from both a legal and a rhetorical point of view. A test of pudicitia is found in “verbal rebellion” against iniuria. The silence traditionally demanded of women turns into an opposite demand – speech: failure to speak during a sexual assault risks being interpreted as evidence of complicity.

Ambiguous Silence: Stuprum and pudicitia in Latin declamation

BRESCIA, Graziana
2015-01-01

Abstract

The article deals with women’s responsibility in adulterium and stuprum from both a legal and a rhetorical point of view. A test of pudicitia is found in “verbal rebellion” against iniuria. The silence traditionally demanded of women turns into an opposite demand – speech: failure to speak during a sexual assault risks being interpreted as evidence of complicity.
2015
978-3-11-040178-3
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