Cretan women
Subtitle: Pasiphae, Ariadne, and Phaedra in Latin poetry
By: Rebecca Armstrong.
Publisher: Oxford University Press; OUP Oxford
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9780199284030
Subjects: Latin poetry -- History and criticism; Mythology, Greek, in literature; Women and literature -- Rome; Women in literature; Pasiphae (Greek mythology); Ariadne (Greek mythology); Phaedra (Greek mythology)
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Oxford, 2001.
Table of contents: title: Ethics and poetics : literary and personal memory in representations of Cretan women; title: The call of the wild; title: Vice and virtue; title: Pasiphae in The eclogues and Ars amatoria; title: Ariadne in Catullus 64; title: Ariadne and Ovid; title: Phaedra from elegiac lover to stoic antiexemplum : Heroides 4 and Seneca, Phaedra.