| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 351 pages) |
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Oxford classical monographs |
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Oxford classical monographs.
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
"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 |
| Notes |
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Oxford, 2001 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-337) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Phaedra (Greek mythological character)
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Ariadne (Greek mythological character)
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Phaedra (Greek mythological character) |
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Ariadne (Greek mythological character) |
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Latin poetry -- History and criticism
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Mythology, Greek, in literature.
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Women and literature -- Rome
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Women in literature.
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Pasiphae (Greek mythology)
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POETRY -- Ancient, Classical & Medieval.
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Latin poetry
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Mythology, Greek, in literature
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Pasiphae (Greek mythology)
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Women and literature
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Women in literature
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Rome (Empire)
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2005030827 |
| ISBN |
9780191515811 |
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0191515817 |
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9781429422178 |
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1429422173 |
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9780191712500 |
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0191712507 |
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