Reproducing Rome : motherhood in Virgil, Ovid, Seneca, and Statius

Reproducing Rome : motherhood in Virgil, Ovid, Seneca, and Statius / Mairéad McAuley.

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 R...

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Main Author: McAuley, Mairéad (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2016.
©2016
Edition:First edition.
Series:Oxford studies in classical literature and gender theory.
Subjects:
Virgil > Criticism and interpretation.
Ovid, > 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. > Criticism and interpretation.
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, > approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D. > Criticism and interpretation.
Statius, P. Papinius > (Publius Papinius) > Criticism and interpretation.
Motherhood in literature.
Latin literature > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Call Number: PA6030.W7 M33 2016
Status: Available

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