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Record Nr.

UNINA9910795842503321

Autore

Armstrong Rebecca <1975->

Titolo

Cretan women [[electronic resource] ] : Pasiphae, Ariadne, and Phaedra in Latin poetry / / Rebecca Armstrong

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006

ISBN

0191515817

9780191515811

Descrizione fisica

ix, 351 p

Disciplina

871/.0109351

Soggetti

Latin poetry - History and criticism

Mythology, Greek, in literature

Women and literature - Rome

Women in literature

Pasiphae (Greek mythology)

Ariadne (Greek mythology)

Phaedra (Greek mythology)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Oxford, 2001.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Ethics and poetics : literary and personal memory in representations of Cretan women -- The call of the wild -- Vice and virtue -- Pasiphae in The eclogues and Ars amatoria -- Ariadne in Catullus 64 -- Ariadne and Ovid -- Phaedra from elegiac lover to stoic antiexemplum : Heroides 4 and Seneca, Phaedra.