Cretan women [electronic resource] : Pasiphae, Ariadne, and Phaedra in Latin poetry / Rebecca Armstrong.
By: Armstrong, Rebecca.
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BookPublisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006Description: ix, 351 p. ; 23 cm.Subject(s): Latin poetry -- History and criticism | Mythology, Greek, in literature | Women and literature -- Rome | Women in literature | Pasiphae (Greek mythology) | Ariadne (Greek mythology) | Phaedra (Greek mythology)Genre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 871/.0109351 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Oxford, 2001.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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