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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Armstrong, Rebecca, 1975-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Colección:Oxford classical monographs.
Temas:
Phaedra > (Greek mythological character)
Ariadne > (Greek mythological character)
Latin poetry > History and criticism.
Mythology, Greek, in literature.
Women and literature > Rome.
Women in literature.
Pasiphae (Greek mythology)
Poésie latine > Histoire et critique.
Mythologie grecque dans la littérature.
Femmes et littérature > Rome.
Femmes dans la littérature.
Pasiphaé (Mythologie grecque)
POETRY > Ancient, Classical & Medieval.
Latin poetry
Mythology, Greek, in literature
Women and literature
Women in literature
Rome (Empire)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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