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Author Armstrong, Rebecca, 1975-

Title Cretan women [electronic resource] : Pasiphae, Ariadne, and Phaedra in Latin poetry / Rebecca Armstrong.

Imprint Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

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Description ix, 351 p.
Note Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Oxford, 2001.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Ethics and poetics : literary and personal memory in representations of Cretan women -- The call of the wild -- Vice and virtue -- Pasiphae in The eclogues and Ars amatoria -- Ariadne in Catullus 64 -- Ariadne and Ovid -- Phaedra from elegiac lover to stoic antiexemplum : Heroides 4 and Seneca, Phaedra.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject 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)
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780199284030 (acid-free paper)
0199284032 (acid-free paper)

 
    
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