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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Armstrong, Rebecca, 1975-

Series:

Oxford classical monographs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latin poetry--History and criticism.

Latin poetry.

Mythology, Greek, in literature.

Women and literature--Rome.

Women and literature.

Women in literature.

Pasiphae (Greek mythology).

Ariadne (Greek mythological character).

Ariadne.

Phaedra (Greek mythological character).

Phaedra.

Physical Description:

ix, 351 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Summary:

In this detailed study of the representations of Pasiphae, Ariadne, and Phaedra in Latin poetry, Rebecca Armstrong investigates both the literary history of the myths (the Greek roots, the interactions between Roman versions) and their cultural resonance. In addition to close readings of the major treatments of each woman's story (in Catullus, Virgil, Ovid, and Seneca), she offers extended thematic explorations of the importance of memory, wildness, and morality in the myths. By extending the net to encompass three women (all from the same ill-fated family), the book gives a clear picture of the complexity and fascinating interconnectedness of myths and texts in Ancient Rome.

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.

Notes:

Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Oxford, 2001.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [317]-337) and indexes.

ISBN:

0199284032

OCLC:

62134767

Publisher Number:

9780199284030 (acid-free paper)