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Author:

Armstrong, Rebecca, 1975- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr2002038429

Title:

Cretan women : Pasiphae, Ariadne, and Phaedra in Latin poetry / Rebecca Armstrong.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2006

Description:

ix, 351 pages ; 23 cm.

Subject:

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)

Notes:

Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Oxford, 2001. Includes bibliographical references (pages [317]-337) and index.

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.

Series:

Oxford classical monographs

ISBN:

9780199284030
0199284032

OCLC:

(OCoLC)62134767

LCCN:

2005030827

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)