Classics Faculty Books
Title
Roman Literature, Gender, and Reception: Domina illustris
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Description
This cutting-edge collection of essays offers provocative studies of ancient history, literature, gender identifications and roles, and subsequent interpretations of the republican and imperial Roman past. The prose and poetry of Cicero and Petronius, Lucretius, Virgil, and Ovid receive fresh interpretations; pagan and Christian texts are re-examined from feminist and imaginative perspectives; genres of epic, didactic, and tragedy are re-examined; and subsequent uses and re-uses of the ancient heritage are probed with new attention: Shakespeare, Nineteenth Century American theater, and contemporary productions involving prisoners and veterans. Comprising nineteen essays collectively honoring the feminist Classical scholar Judith Hallett, this book will interest the Classical scholar, the ancient historian, the student of Reception Studies, and feminists interested in all periods. The authors from the United States, Britain, France and Switzerland are authorities in one or more of these fields and chapters range from the late Republic to the late Empire to the present.
ISBN
9780415825078
Publication Date
2013
Publisher
Routledge
City
London
Disciplines
Classics
Recommended Citation
Lateiner, Donald; Gold, Barbara; and Perkins, Judith, "Roman Literature, Gender, and Reception: Domina illustris" (2013). Classics Faculty Books. 8.
https://digitalcommons.owu.edu/clas_books/8