The Roman mistress : ancient and modern representations / Maria Wyke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wyke, Maria, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, -30 B.C--In literature.

Cleopatra.

Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, -30 B.C--In motion pictures.

Messalina, Valeria, -48--In literature.

Messalina, Valeria.

Messalina, Valeria, -48--In motion pictures.

Love poetry, Latin--History and criticism.

Love poetry, Latin.

Mistresses--Rome.

Mistresses.

Women in literature.

Sex role in literature.

Sex role in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (464 p. ) ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In a highly accessible style, The Roman Mistress makes an important and original contribution simultaneously to feminist scholarship on antiquity, the classical tradition and cultural studies.

Contents:

Introduction; I. LOVE POETRY; 1. Mistress and Metaphor in Augustan Elegy; 2. Written Women: Propertius' scripta puella (2. 10-13); 3. The Elegiac Woman at Rome: Propertius Book 4; 4. Reading Female Flesh: Ovid Amores 3. 1; 5. Taking the Woman's Part: Gender and Scholarship on Love Elegy; II. RECEPTION; 6. Meretrix regina: Augustan Cleopatras; 7. Oriental Vamp; Cleopatra 1910's; 8. Glamour Girl: Cleopatra 1930's-1960's; 9. Meretrix Augusta: Messalina 1870's-1920's; 10. Suburban Feminist: Messalina 1930's-1970's

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2002.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 391-428) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

1-383-00598-2

1-281-34614-4

0-19-154140-0

OCLC:

1406785926