Talk:Pudicitia

[1] ref for earlier anon edit. Alf 18:47, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

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I'm not sure it's wholly accurate to say that Aidôs is the equivalent of Pudicitia in the sense that, say, Minerva is the equivalent of Athena; without actual myths, they can be equated only to the degree their concepts can be equated, and they aren't at all the same. Aidôs is a vastly broader concept, the feeling of 'shame at doing wrong', more or less the conscience; pudicitia is tremendously narrower, really only referring to proper sexual conduct. (And 'chastity' is a far better translation than 'modesty', BTW.)

There are other problems with this article (the discussion of the univira thing rather distorts the actual Roman view on the matter) but I don't have time to fix it now. Vultur (talk) 13:35, 4 October 2010 (UTC)

Pudicitia vs Pudicity

Whenever I read about pudicitia in a modern book about Roman custom, the author will invariably speak about the nuances as as particular to Roman culture and lost to history. However, the English word for pudicitia is "pudicity", and the virtue continued to play a role in Western Christian culture for centuries. It continued to be a common word through the 19th century. Indeed, it played a part in the penal code. For example, the 1825 Louisiana penal code mentions "assault aggravated by injury to pudicity." Medical texts of the same period discuss protecting a woman's pudicity.

Though today we have a tendency to modesty and chastity with pudicity, it was until recently recognized as a slightly different concept. Only the person in question could injure their own modesty or chastity, while others could injure their pudicity.

This is largely an unexplored topic -- but the question to me is whether the text here should be taken out of specifically only the Roman context and expanded into a broader context. Brianshapiro (talk) 03:11, 23 February 2016 (UTC)