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

• Autore: Armstrong Rebecca <1975->
• 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
• 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.: 9910451346503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Oxford Classical Monographs