The Roman Mistress: Ancient and Modern Representations

ISBN-13: 9780199228331 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 464 str.

Maria Wyke

Opis

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.

Recenzje

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.

O autorze

Maria Wyke is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Reading.