Roman Mistress - Ancient and Modern Representations

Zusatztext Wyke's essays...powerfully demonstrated the artificiality of the elegiac world, its women in particular. Wyke's key insight about love elegy is that...the elegiac woman has everything to do with the construction of a provocative male persona, and very little to do with women per se. Informationen zum Autor Maria Wyke is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Reading From Latin love poetry's dominating and enslaving beloveds, to modern popular culture's infamous Cleopatras and Messalinas, representations of the Roman mistress (or the mistress of Romans) have brought into question both ancient and modern genders and political systems. The Roman Mistress makes an important and original contribution simultaneously to feminist scholarship on antiquity, the classical tradition, and cultural studies. Zusammenfassung From Latin love poetry's dominating and enslaving beloveds, to modern popular culture's infamous Cleopatras and Messalinas, representations of the Roman mistress (or the mistress of Romans) have brought into question both ancient and modern genders and political systems. The Roman Mistress explores representations of transgressive women in Latin love poetry and British television drama, in Roman historiography and nineteenth-century Italian anthropology, on classical coinage and college websites, as poetic metaphor and in the Hollywood star system. In a highly accessible style, the book makes an important and original contribution simultaneously to feminist scholarship on antiquity, the classical tradition, and cultural studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1. Love Poetry 2: Written Women: Propertius' scripta puella (2. 10-13) 3: The Elegiac Woman at Rome: Propertius Book 4 4: Reading Female Flesh: Ovid Amores 3. 1 Part 2. Reception 6: Meretrix regina: Augustan Cleopatras 7: Oriental Vamp; Cleopatra 1910s 8: Glamour Girl: Cleopatra 1930s - 1960s 9: Meretrix Augusta: Messalina 1870s - 1920s 10: Suburban Feminist: Messalina 1930s - 1970s ...

Product details

• Authors: Wyke, Maria Wyke, Maria (Senior Lecturer in Classics At the Un Wyke, Wyke Maria
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.08.2007
• EAN: 9780199228331
• ISBN: 978-0-19-922833-1
• No. of pages: 464
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Cultural Studies, European History, Latin, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, POETRY / Ancient & Classical, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient Rome, Ancient History, Gender studies: women, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Gender studies: women and girls, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Film history, theory or criticism