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



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Autore: Armstrong Rebecca <1975-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Cretan women [[electronic resource] ] : Pasiphae, Ariadne, and Phaedra in Latin poetry / / Rebecca Armstrong Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (362 p.)
Disciplina: 871/.0109351
Soggetto topico: Latin poetry - History and criticism
Mythology, Greek, in literature
Women and literature - Rome
Women in literature
Pasiphae (Greek mythology)
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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
Titolo autorizzato: Cretan women  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-280-75605-5
0-19-151581-7
1-4294-2217-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 996213955903316
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Serie: Oxford Classical Monographs