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The Roman mistress : ancient and modern representations /
A highly accessible study of representations of transgressive women in Latin love poetry and British television drama, in Roman historiography and nineteenth-century Italian anthropology, on classical coinage and college websites, as poetic metaphor and in the Hollywood star system. - ;From Latin lo...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2007.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | A highly accessible study of representations of transgressive women in Latin love poetry and British television drama, in Roman historiography and nineteenth-century Italian anthropology, on classical coinage and college websites, as poetic metaphor and in the Hollywood star system. - ;From Latin love poetry's dominating and enslaving beloveds, to modern popular culture's infamous Cleopatras and Messalinas, representations of the Roman mistress (or the mistress of Romans) have brought into question both ancient and modern genders and political systems. The Roman Mistress explores representatio. |
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| Item Description: | Originally published: 2002. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (452 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191541407 0191541400 0199228337 9780199228331 1281346144 9781281346148 |