"During the last centuries of the Roman Empire, the prevailing ideal of feminine virtue was radically transformed: the pure but fertile heroines of Greek and Roman romance were replaced by a Christian heroine who ardently refused the marriage bed. How this new concept and figure…
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"During the last centuries of the Roman Empire, the prevailing ideal of feminine virtue was radically transformed: the pure but fertile heroines of Greek and Roman romance were replaced by a Christian heroine who ardently refused the marriage bed. How this new concept and figure…
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 …
Feminist theory and the classics
by Richlin, Amy, Rabinowitz, Nancy Sorkin
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Feminist theory and the classics
by Richlin, Amy, Rabinowitz, Nancy Sorkin
fromThinking gender
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Type: Book
Feminist theory and the classics
by Richlin, Amy, Rabinowitz, Nancy Sorkin
fromThinking gender
0
Type: Book
Feminist theory and the classics
by Richlin, Amy, Rabinowitz, Nancy Sorkin
fromThinking gender
0
Type: Book
This study transforms our understanding of Roman love elegy, an important and complex corpus of poetry that flourished in the late first century b.c.e. Sharon L. James reads key poems by Propertius, Tibullus, and Ovid for the first time from the perspective of the woman to whom …