Reproducing Rome
Motherhood in Virgil, Ovid, Seneca, and Statius
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 Roman literature of the first century CE, a period of intense social upheaval and reorganization as Rome was transformed from a Republic to a form ofhereditary monarchy under the emperor Augustus.Through a series of close readings of works by Virgil, Ovid, Seneca, and Statius, the volume scrutinizes the gender dynamics that permeate these ancient au…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-163420-8
- EAN: 9780191634208
- Produktnummer: 19558455
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 264 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 3'371 KB
Über den Autor
Mairéad McAuley is a lecturer in Classics at University College London.
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