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Cretan women : Pasiphae, Ariadne, and Phaedra in Latin poetry /
"Cretan Women examines the ways in which myths about Pasiphae, Ariadne, and Phaedra come to be woven into the fabric of the Roman literary world. Both forming and conforming to the stereotype of the lustful Cretan woman, these are characters who walk the boundaries between the wild and the tame...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2006.
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| Colección: | Oxford classical monographs.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Cretan Women examines the ways in which myths about Pasiphae, Ariadne, and Phaedra come to be woven into the fabric of the Roman literary world. Both forming and conforming to the stereotype of the lustful Cretan woman, these are characters who walk the boundaries between the wild and the tame, the virtuous and the vicious, the abominable and the divine. As Cretans, the women belong to an island filled with paradox: the cradle of a once great civilization renowned for its laws and justice, it is also a place associated with savagery, duplicity, and mystery. The power of these myths had already made them a popular subject in Greek literature, and the Latin poets come to explore the characters through the lens of earlier poetry as well as their own culture."--Jacket. |
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| Notas: | Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Oxford, 2001. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 351 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-337) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191515811 0191515817 9781429422178 1429422173 9780191712500 0191712507 |