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1987
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Marcel Benabou, « Pratique matrimoniale et représentation philosophique : le crépuscule des stratégies », Annales, ID : 10.3406/ahess.1987.283452
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Matrimonial Practice and Philosophical Representation: the Decline of Strategic Weddings? It has often been claimed that there is a close link between two phenomena which seem to characterize Early Roman Empire society: (1) the decline in the then current practice of so-called strategic marriages (for primarily political and economic ends) when compared with more personal ones; (2) the birth and rapid development, reflected by a number of moralists and philosophers (especially those who directly or indirectly drew their inspiration from the Stoics), of a new representation of the conjugal tie. A brief historical analysis permits us to severely qualify this daim, bringing to light far more complex links between the two phenomena, in which philosophical polemic (especially anti-Epicurean) played a non-negligable role.