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Cretan women Pasiphae, Ariadne, and Phaedra in Latin poetry

Title
Cretan women [electronic resource] : Pasiphae, Ariadne, and Phaedra in Latin poetry / Rebecca Armstrong.
Author
Armstrong, Rebecca, 1975-
Publication
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

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Description
1 online resource (ix, 351 p.)
Uniform Title
Cretan women (Online)
Alternative Title
Cretan women (Online)
Subject
  • Ariadne (Greek mythological character)
  • Phaedra (Greek mythological character)
  • Latin poetry > History and criticism
  • Mythology, Greek, in literature
  • Women and literature > Rome
  • Women in literature
  • Pasiphae (Greek mythology)
Note
  • Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Oxford, 2001.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
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.
LCCN
2005030827
OCLC
ssj0000132271
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.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
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