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 mythology).

Phaedra (Greek mythology).

Physical Description:

ix, 351 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Summary:

Rebecca Armstrong investigates the myths of three Cretan women - King Minos' wife, Pasiphae, and their daughters Ariadne and Phaedra - as they appear in Latin poetry of the late Republic and early Empire. She offers detailed readings of the most prominent treatments of the stories, alongside a thematic investigation of the ideas of memory, wildness, and morality which recur so prominently in the tales.

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 and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0191515817

9780191515811

OCLC:

77173711