Title: Cretan women : Pasiphae, Ariadne, and Phaedra in Latin poetry /
Authors: Armstrong, Rebecca, 1975-
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Phaedra; Ariadne; Latin poetry History and criticism.; Mythology, Greek, in literature.; Women and literature Rome.; Women in literature; Pasiphae (Greek mythology)
Abstract: Armstrong investigates the myths of three Cretan women 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 anti-exemplum? : Heroides 4 and Seneca, Phaedra.