| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 337 pages) : illustrations |
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Routledge monographs in classical studies ; 13 |
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Routledge monographs in classical studies ; 13.
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| Contents |
pt. I Roman Literature -- 1. Cicero and the Alien / Erich S. Gruen -- 2. Frigidus Sanguis: Lucretius, Virgil and Death / Michael C.J. Putnam -- 3. Troy and Trauma in the Aeneid / Marilyn B. Skinner -- 4. Poetic Doubling Effects in Ovid's "Ceyx and Alcyone" (Met. XI) / Donald Lateiner -- 5. Naso and Gods / Timothy Peter Wiseman -- 6.A Note on Fame and the "Widow of Ephesus" / Sheila K. Dickison -- pt. II Gender -- 7. The Fragments of Terentia / Amy Richlin -- 8. Onomastics, Intertextuality and Gender: "Phyllis" in Roman Poetry (Gallus, Vergil, Horace, Propertius and Ovid) / Jacqueline Fabre-Serris -- 9. Woman Warrior? Aeneas' Encounters with the Feminine / Thomas Van Nortwick -- 10."And I Became a Man": Gender Fluidity and Closure in Perpetua's Prison Narrative / Barbara K. Gold -- 11. Dynastic Weaving: Claudian, Carmina minora 46-8 / Henriette Harich-Schwarzbauer -- pt. III Reception |
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12. The Spectacle of "Bare Life" in Martial's Liber Spectaculorum and Martyr Discourse / Judith Perkins -- 13. The Role of Physicians (Galen, Mercuriale and Brookes) in the History of Greek Sport and the Olympic Revival / Hugh M. Lee -- 14.A Renaissance Feminist Translation of Xenophon's Oeconomicus / Diana Robin -- 15. Bianca: The Other African in Othello / Jane Donawerth -- 16. Talfourd's Ion: Classical Reception and Gender in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia / Lee T. Pearcy -- 17. Women and Classics in Victorian Oxbridge: Parallels and Contrasts / Christopher Stray -- 18. Ancient Myth and Feminist Politics: The Medea Project and San Francisco Women's Prisons / Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz -- 19. Theaters of War / Mary-Kay Gamel |
| Summary |
"This cutting-edge collection of essays offers provocative studies of ancient history, literature, gender identifications and roles, and subsequent interpretations of the republican and imperial Roman past. The prose and poetry of Cicero and Petronius, Lucretius, Virgil, and Ovid receive fresh interpretations; pagan and Christian texts are re-examined from feminist and imaginative perspectives; genres of epic, didactic, and tragedy are re-examined; and subsequent uses and re-uses of the ancient heritage are probed with new attention: Shakespeare, Nineteenth Century American theater, and contemporary productions involving prisoners and veterans. Comprising twenty essays collectively honoring the feminist Classical scholar Judith Hallett, this book will interest the Classical scholar, the ancient historian, the student of Reception Studies, and feminists interested in all periods. The authors from the United States, Britain, France and Switzerland are authorities in one or more of these fields and chapters range from the late Republic to the late Empire to the present"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-316) and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Latin literature -- History and criticism
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Sex role in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classical.
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- Rome.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Drama.
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Latin literature
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Sex role in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hallett, Judith P., 1944- honouree.
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Lateiner, Donald, editor
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Gold, Barbara K., 1945- editor.
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Perkins, Judith, 1944- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781135948061 |
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1135948062 |
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