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Autore |
Armstrong Rebecca <1975-> |
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Cretan women [[electronic resource] ] : Pasiphae, Ariadne, and Phaedra in Latin poetry / / Rebecca Armstrong |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006 |
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1-280-75605-5 |
0-19-151581-7 |
1-4294-2217-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (362 p.) |
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Collana |
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Oxford Classical Monographs |
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Soggetti |
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Latin poetry - History and criticism |
Mythology, Greek, in literature |
Women and literature - Rome |
Women in literature |
Pasiphae (Greek mythology) |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Oxford, 2001. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Rebecca Armstrong investigates the myths of three Cretan women - King Minos' wife, Pasiphae, and their daughters Ariadne and Phaedra - as they appear in Latin poetry of the late Republic and early Empire. She offers detailed readings of the most prominent treatments of the stories, alongside a thematic investigation of the ideas of memory, wildness, and morality which recur so prominently in the tales. - ;In this detailed study of the representations of Pasiphae, Ariadne, and Phaedra in Latin poetry, Rebecca Armstrong investigates both the literary history of the myths (the Greek roots, the in |
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