Mairead McAuley

Reproducing Rome

Motherhood in Virgil, Ovid, Seneca, and Statius

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Reproducing Rome is a study of the representation of maternity in the Roman literature of the first century CE-particularly Virgil, Ovid, Seneca, and Statius-considering to what degree it reflects, constructs, or subverts Roman ideals of, and anxieties about, family and motherhood.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 462
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 161mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 867g
• ISBN-13: 9780199659364
• ISBN-10: 0199659362
• Artikelnr.: 47866492

Autorenporträt

Mairéad McAuley is a lecturer in Classics at University College London.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgements
* 1: Introduction: Seeking the Mother in Imperial Roman Literature
* Part 1: Augustan Epic
* 2: Maternal Impressions: Reading Mothers in Virgil's Aeneid and
Georgics
* 3: Matermorphoses: Motherhood and the Ovidian Epic Subject
* Part 2: Seneca
* 4: The Textual Mother: Seneca's Consolatio ad Helviam Matrem
* 5: The Politics of Maternal Representation: Medea and Phaedra
* 6: Where the Unborn Lie: The Uncanny Mothers of Troades (or Ways of
Reading a Mother in Senecan Tragedy)
* Part 3: Statian Epic
* 7: Matres and Metaphors in Thebes: Statius' Thebaid
* 8: Scit cetera mater: Motherhood and Poetic Filiation in Statian Epic
* Epilogue
* Bibliography
* Index