Oxford Studies in Classical Literature and Gender Theory – serie
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Pythagorean Women Philosophers
Between Belief and Suspicion
Inbunden, 2020
1647 kr
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Women played an important part in Pythagorean communities, so Greek sources from the Classical era to Byzantium consistently maintain. Pseudonymous philosophical texts by Theano, Pythagoras' disciple or wife, his daughter Myia, and other female Pythagoreans, circulated in Greek and Syriac. Far from …
Latin Elegy and the Space of Empire
Inbunden, 2021
1549 kr
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In a time of aggressive imperial expansion, Latin elegists expressed geographical concerns about boundaries and limits through masculine and feminine subjects in their poetry. Latin Elegy and the Space of Empire argues that the subject in Latin elegy, beginning with Catallus, constitutes itself in …
Women in Martial
A Semiotic Reading
Inbunden, 2024
1320 kr
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Women in Martial is the first monograph to treat the portrayals of women in Martial's Epigrams in a systematic way. In this volume, Marchesi proposes a new method of exploring the cultural construction of femininity in the Flavian age, presenting an interplay between close readings of Martial's …
Gender, Domesticity, and the Age of Augustus
Inventing Private Life
Häftad, 2008
1347 kr
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The age of Augustus has long been recognized as a time when the Roman state put a new emphasis on `traditional' feminine domestic ideals, yet at the same time gave real public prominence to certain women in their roles as wives, mothers, sisters, and daughters. Kristina Milnor takes up a series of …
Gender, Domesticity, and the Age of Augustus
Inventing Private Life
Inbunden, 2005
4286 kr
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The age of Augustus has long been recognized as a time when the Roman state put a new emphasis on `traditional' feminine domestic ideals, yet at the same time gave real public prominence to certain women in their roles as wives, mothers, sisters, and daughters. Kristina Milnor takes up a series of …
Feminine Discourse in Roman Comedy
On Echoes and Voices
Inbunden, 2008
3337 kr
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As literature written in Latin has almost no female authors, we are dependent on male writers for some understanding of the way women would have spoken. Plautus (3rd to 2nd century BCE) and Terence (2nd century BCE) consistently write particular linguistic features into the lines spoken by their …
Playing the Man
Performing Masculinities in the Ancient Greek Novel
Av Meriel Jones
Inbunden, 2012
3074 kr
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Despite the growth of research on masculinity in both Gender and Classical Studies, and the resurgence of interest in ancient fiction, no volume has yet been devoted to exploring the representation of masculinity in ancient Greek novels. This ground-breaking study examines and contextualizes three …
Motherhood and the Other
Fashioning Female Power in Flavian Epic
Inbunden, 2010
2550 kr
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This is the first book-length study to reconstruct the role of women in the epic poems of the Flavian period of Latin literature. Antony Augoustakis examines the role of female characters from the perspective of Julia Kristeva's theories on foreign otherness and motherhood to underscore the …
Gendering Time in Augustan Love Elegy
Inbunden, 2013
2210 kr
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Gendering Time in Augustan Love Elegy examines how and why time appears to affect men and women differently in Latin love elegy. Considering the genre's brief flowering during the Augustan Principate, it aims to situate the elegies of Propertius, Tibullus, and Ovid in their social and political …
Reproducing Rome
Motherhood in Virgil, Ovid, Seneca, and Statius
Inbunden, 2015
2504 kr
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In the conservative and competitive society of ancient Rome, where the law of the father (patria potestas) was supposedly absolute, motherhood took on complex aesthetic, moral, and political meanings in elite literary discourse. Reproducing Rome is a study of the representation of maternity in the …
