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The Tears of Achilles by Hélène Monsacré
Achilles--warrior and hero--by the protocols of Western culture, should never cry. And yet Homeric epic is full of his tears and those of his companions at Troy. This path-blazing study shows how later ideals of stoically inexpressive manhood run contrary to the poetic vision presented in the Iliad and Odyssey. Monsacré pursues the paradox of the tearful fighter through a series of lucid and detailed close readings, and examines all aspects of the interactions between men and women in the Homeric poems.
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Mothering and Motherhood in Ancient Greece and Rome by Lauren Hackworth Petersen, Patricia Salzman-Mitchell (Editors)
Motherhood played a central role in ancient Greece and Rome, despite the virtual absence of female participation in the public spheres of life. In this volume, experts from across the humanities present a wealth of evidence from legal, literary, and medical texts, as well as art, architecture, ritual, and material culture, to reveal the multilayered dimensions of motherhood in both Greece and Rome and to confront the fact that not all mothers and acts of mothering can be easily categorized.
Flavian Rome by Anthony Boyle, William J. Dominik (Editors)
Twenty-five scholars from five countries have combined to produce a critical survey of the Flavian period, which underscores and re-evaluates its foundational importance. The studies attend to a diversity of topics, including: the new political settlement, the role of the army, change and continuity in Rome s social structures, cultural festivals, architecture, sculpture, religion, coinage, imperial discourse, epistemology and political control, rhetoric, philosophy, Greek intellectual life, drama, poetry, patronage, Flavian historians, amphitheatrical Rome.
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Rediscovering Homer by Andrew Dalby
Dalby finds new approaches to the personality of Homer, showing how the earliest evidence has been misread. He makes a powerful case that both poems are the work of a single poet and comes to an ultimate conclusion that will surprise even serious classical scholars: Homer was most likely a woman.
Masculine Plural by Jennifer Ingleheart
Statius' Achilleid inspired the verse drama Achilles in Scyros by Victorian schoolmaster Philip Gillespie Bainbrigge. This collection includes that work, which features a cross-dressing Achilles and a Chorus of lesbian schoolgirls, along with others by Bainbrigge.
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Engendering Rome: Women in Latin Epic by A. M. Keith
This study represents an attempt to restore female characters to visibility in Roman epic and to examine the discursive operations that effect their marginalisation within both the genre and the critical tradition it has given rise to. The five chapters can be read either as self-contained essays or as a cumulative exploration of the gender dynamics of the Roman epic tradition. studies.
Brill's Companion to Valerius Flaccus
Brill's Companion to Valerius Flaccus is the first English-language survey on all key aspects of this Flavian poet and his epic Argonautica.
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Brill's Companion to Silius Italicus
This collection of essays aims at examining the importance of Silius historical epic in Flavian, Domitianic Rome by offering a detailed overview of the poems context and intertext, its themes and images, and its reception from antiquity through Renaissance and modern philological criticism. This pioneering volume is the first comprehensive, collaborative study on the longest epic poem in Latin literature.
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Flavian Epic Interactions by Gesine Manuwald, Astrid Voigt (Editors)
This volume on the three Flavian epic poets (Valerius Flaccus, Statius and Silius Italicus) for the first time critically engages with a unique set-up in Roman literary history: the survival of four epic poems from the same period (Argonautica; Thebaid, Achilleid; Punica). The interactions of these poems with each other and their contemporary context are explored by over 20 experts and emerging scholars.
Flavian Epic by Antony Augoustakis (Editor)
Drawn from sixty years of scholarship, this edited collection is the first volume to collate the most influential modern academic writings on Flavian epic poetry, revised and updated to provide both scholars and students alike with a broad yet comprehensive overview of the field.
The Epic Gaze: Vision, Gender, and Narrative in Ancient Epic by Helen Lovatt
Helen Lovatt demonstrates the complexity of epic constructions of gender: from Apollonius' Medea toppling Talos with her eyes to Parthenopaeus as object of desire. She discusses mortals appropriating the divine gaze, prophets as both penetrative viewers and rape victims, explores the divine authority of epic ecphrasis, and exposes the way that heroic bodies are fragmented and fetishised.
Women in the Classical World by Elaine Fantham et al.
The first book on classical women to give equal weight to written texts and artistic representations, it brings together a great wealth of materials--poetry, vase painting, legislation, medical treatises, architecture, religious and funerary art, women's ornaments, historical epics, political speeches, even ancient coins--to present women in the historical and cultural context of their time.
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Motherhood and the Other: fashioning female power in Flavian epic by Antony Augoustakis
This is the first book-length study to reconstruct the role of women in the epic poems of the Flavian period of Latin literature. Antony Augoustakis examines the role of female characters from the perspective of Julia Kristeva's theories on foreign otherness and motherhood to underscore the on-going negotiation between same and other in the Roman literary imagination as a telling reflection on the construction of Roman identity and of gender and cultural hierarchies.
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Medicine and the Making of Roman Women by Rebecca Flemming
Dr Flemming investigates female involvement in the manifold medical activities of the Roman world: how women fared as practitioners and patients, how they were understood and described in the copious medical writings of the period, and what effects those understandings and descriptions had in wider society.
The Feminine Matrix of Sex and Gender in Classical Athens by Kate Gilhuly
Kate Gilhuly explores the relationship between the prostitute, the wife, and the ritual performer in Athenian literature. She suggests that these three roles formed a symbolic continuum that served as an alternative to a binary conception of gender in classical Athens and provided a framework for assessing both masculine and feminine civic behaviour. This book draws upon observations from gender studies and the history of sexuality in ancient Greece to illuminate the relevance of these representations of women to civic behaviour, pederasty, philosophy, and politics. Gilhuly casts a new light on the complexity of the classical Athenian sex/gender system, demonstrating how various and even opposing strategies worked together to articulate different facets of the Athenian subject.
Roman Women by Eve D'Ambra
This book examines the daily lives of Roman women by focusing on the mundane aspects of daily life -- family and household, work and leisure, worship and social obligations -- of women of different social ranks. Using a variety of sources, including literary texts, letters, inscriptions, coins, tableware, furniture, and the fine arts, from the late Republic to the high Imperial period, Eve D'Ambra shows how these sources serve as objects of social analysis, rather than simply as documents that recreate how life was lived.
Ancient Greek Women in Film by Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos (Editor)
This volume examines cinematic representations of ancient Greek women from the realms of myth and history. Using a diverse array of hermeneutic approaches, the essays aim to cast light on cinema's investments in the classical past, and to decode the mechanisms whereby the women under examination are extracted from their original context and brought to life to serve as vehicles for the articulation of modern ideas, concerns, and cultural trends.
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Studying Gender in Classical Antiquity by
This book investigates how varying practices of gender shaped people's lives and experiences across the societies of ancient Greece and Rome.
Homer's Odyssey by
Essays include "Penelope's agnoia: knowledge, power, and gender in the Odyssey," by Sheila Murnaghan; and "Gender and internal audiences in the Odyssey," by Lillian E. Doherty.
Ritual and Religion in Flavian Epic by
Includes four essays on "Ritual and the Female" in Flavian epic poetry.
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A Companion to the Flavian Age of Imperial Rome by
Examines the Flavian Age more broadly and inclusively than ever before, incorporating coverage of often neglected groups, such as women and non-Romans within the Empire.
Flavian Poetry and Its Greek Past by
Examines the intimate literary affiliation between the Flavian poets (Martial, Silius Italicus, Statius, and Valerius Flaccus) and their Greek literary predecessors, as well as its meaning within the socio-cultural context of the Flavian age.
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The Cambridge Companion to Homer by
Essays include "Gender and Homeric epic," by Nancy Felson and Laura Slatkin
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The World of Women in the Ancient and Classical near East by
These essays argue that women's domestic contributions were essential components of human survival in antiquity, as were their contributions elsewhere throughout society, in elite royal, religious, and funerary contexts.
