Roman Literature Gender And Reception

Author : Donald Lateiner,Barbara K. Gold,Judith Perkins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135948061

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Roman Literature, Gender and Reception by Donald Lateiner,Barbara K. Gold,Judith Perkins Pdf

This cutting-edge collection of essays offers provocative studies of ancient history, literature, gender identifications and roles, and subsequent interpretations of the republican and imperial Roman past. The prose and poetry of Cicero and Petronius, Lucretius, Virgil, and Ovid receive fresh interpretations; pagan and Christian texts are re-examined from feminist and imaginative perspectives; genres of epic, didactic, and tragedy are re-examined; and subsequent uses and re-uses of the ancient heritage are probed with new attention: Shakespeare, Nineteenth Century American theater, and contemporary productions involving prisoners and veterans. Comprising nineteen essays collectively honoring the feminist Classical scholar Judith Hallett, this book will interest the Classical scholar, the ancient historian, the student of Reception Studies, and feminists interested in all periods. The authors from the United States, Britain, France and Switzerland are authorities in one or more of these fields and chapters range from the late Republic to the late Empire to the present.

Author : John Everett Brady
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Women authors, Italy
ISBN : HARVARD:32044072056815

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Women in Roman Literature ... by John Everett Brady Pdf

Author : Thea S. Thorsen,Stephen Harrison
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192564818

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Roman Receptions of Sappho by Thea S. Thorsen,Stephen Harrison Pdf

Sappho, a towering figure in Western culture, is an exemplary case in the history of classical receptions. There are three prominent reasons for this. Firstly, Sappho is associated with some of the earliest poetry in the classical tradition, which makes her reception history one of the longest we know of. Furthermore, Sappho's poetry promotes ideologically challenging concepts such as female authority and homoeroticism, which have prompted very conspicuous interpretative strategies to deal with issues of gender and sexuality, revealing the values of the societies that have received her works through time. Finally, Sappho's legacy has been very well explored from the perspective of reception studies: important investigations have been made into responses both to her as poet-figure and to her poetry from her earliest reception through to our own time. However, one of the few eras in Sappho's longstanding reception history that has not been systematically explored before this volume is the Roman period. The omission is a paradox. Receptions of Sappho can be traced in more than eighteen Roman poets, among them many of the most central authors in the history of Latin literature. Surely, few other Greek poets can rival the impact of Sappho at Rome. This important fact calls out for a systematic approach to Sappho's Roman reception, which is the aim of Roman Receptions of Sappho that focuses on the poetry of the central period of Roman literary history, from the time of Lucretius to that of Martial.

Author : Gunhild Vidén
Publisher : Coronet Books Incorporated
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9173462608

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Women in Roman Literature by Gunhild Vidén Pdf

Author : Domenico Lovascio
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501514203

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Roman Women in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries by Domenico Lovascio Pdf

Roman Women in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries explores the crucial role of Roman female characters in the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. While much has been written on male characters in the Roman plays as well as on non-Roman women in early modern English drama, very little attention has been paid to the issues of what makes Roman women ‘Roman’ and what their role in those plays is beyond their supposed function as supporting characters for the male protagonists. Through the exploration of a broad array of works produced by such diverse playwrights as Samuel Brandon, William Shakespeare, Matthew Gwynne, Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, Thomas May, and Nathaniel Richards under three such different monarchs as Elizabeth I, James I, and Charles I, Roman Women in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries contributes to a more precise assessment of the practices through which female identities were discussed in literature in the specific context of Roman drama and a more nuanced understanding of the ways in which accounts of Roman women were appropriated, manipulated and recreated in early modern England.

Author : Garth Tissol,William Wendell Batstone
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0820478296

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Defining Genre and Gender in Latin Literature by Garth Tissol,William Wendell Batstone Pdf

The Roman confrontation and assimilation of Greek literature entailed a scrutiny, critique, and adaptation of generic assumptions. This book considers the ways in which major genres - among them comedy, lyric, elegy, epic, and the novel - were redefined to accommodate Roman concerns and the ways in which gender plays a role in generic definition and authorial self-definition. Both of these areas of research have been important to William S. Anderson throughout his career. This collection of essays by his students helps readers to understand the nature of Roman literary self-definition, as it honors Professor Anderson's own achievements in this field.

Author : K. R. Moore
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 749 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000626193

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The Routledge Companion to the Reception of Ancient Greek and Roman Gender and Sexuality by K. R. Moore Pdf

This Companion covers a range of receptions of ancient Greek and Roman gender and sexuality. It explores ancient representations of these concepts as we define them today, as well as recent perspectives that have been projected back onto antiquity. Beginning in antiquity, the chapters examine how the ancient Greeks and Romans regarded concepts of what we would today call "gender" and "sexuality" based on the evidence available to us, and chart the varied interpretations and receptions of these concepts across time to the present day. In exploring how different cultures have "received" the classical past, the volume investigates these cultures’ different interpretations of Greek and Roman sexualities, and what these interpretations can reveal about their own attitudes. Through the contributions in this book, the reader gains a deeper understanding of this essential part of human existence, derived from influential sources. From ancient to modern and postmodern perspectives, from cinematic productions to TikTok videos, receptions of ancient gender and sexuality abound. This volume is of interest to students and scholars of ancient history, gender and sexuality in the ancient world, and ancient societies, as well as those working on popular culture and gender studies more broadly.

Author : Laura Eastlake
Publisher : Classical Presences
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198833031

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Masculinity and Ancient Rome in the Victorian Cultural Imagination by Laura Eastlake Pdf

Masculinity and Ancient Rome in the Victorian Cultural Imagination examines Victorian receptions of ancient Rome, with a specific focus on how those receptions were deployed to create useable models of masculinity. Romans in Victorian literature are at once pagan persecutors, pious statesmen, pleasure-seeking decadents, and heroes of empire, and these manifold and often contradictory representations are used as vehicles equally to capture the martial virtue of Wellington and to condemn the deviance and degeneracy of Oscar Wilde. In the works of Thomas Macaulay, Wilkie Collins, Anthony Trollope, H. Rider Haggard, and Rudyard Kipling, among others, Rome emerges as a contested space with an array of possible scripts and signifiers which can be used to frame masculine ideals, or to vilify perceived deviance from those ideals, though with a value and significance often very different to ancient Greek models. Sitting at the intersection of reception studies, gender studies, and interdisciplinary literary and cultural studies across discourses ranging from education and politics, this volume offers the first comprehensive examination of the importance of ancient Rome as a cultural touchstone for nineteenth-century manliness and Victorian codifications of masculinity.

Author : Marguerite Johnson,Terry Ryan
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0415173310

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Sexuality in Greek and Roman Society and Literature by Marguerite Johnson,Terry Ryan Pdf

This Sourcebook contains numerous original translations of ancient poetry, inscriptions and documents, all of which illuminate the multifaceted nature of sexuality in antiquity. The detailed introduction provides full social and historical context for the sources, and guides students on how to use the material most effectively. Themes such as marriage, prostitution and same-sex attraction are presented comparatively, with material from the Greek and Roman worlds shown side by side. This approach allows readers to interpret the written records with a full awareness of the different context of these separate but related societies. Commentaries are provided throughout, focusing on vocabulary and social and historical context. This is the first major sourcebook on ancient sexuality; it will be of particular use on related courses in classics, ancient history and gender studies.

Author : John Everett Brady
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Women authors
ISBN : OCLC:144682088

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Women in Roman literature by John Everett Brady Pdf

Author : Eve D'Ambra
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 7 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521818391

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Roman Women by Eve D'Ambra Pdf

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Author : Sharon L. James,Sheila Dillon
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 661 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781119025542

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A Companion to Women in the Ancient World by Sharon L. James,Sheila Dillon Pdf

Selected by Choice as a 2012 Outstanding Academic Title Awarded a 2012 PROSE Honorable Mention as a Single Volume Reference/Humanities & Social Sciences A Companion to Women in the Ancient World presents an interdisciplinary, methodologically-based collection of newly-commissioned essays from prominent scholars on the study of women in the ancient world. The first interdisciplinary, methodologically-based collection of readings to address the study of women in the ancient world Explores a broad range of topics relating to women in antiquity, including: Mother-Goddess Theory; Women in Homer, Pre-Roman Italy, the Near East; Women and the Family, the State, and Religion; Dress and Adornment; Female Patronage; Hellenistic Queens; Imperial Women; Women in Late Antiquity; Early Women Saints; and many more Thematically arranged to emphasize the importance of historical themes of continuity, development, and innovation Reconsiders much of the well-known evidence and preconceived notions relating to women in antiquity Includes contributions from many of the most prominent scholars associated with the study of women in antiquity

Author : Alice König,Rebecca Langlands,James Uden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108493932

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Literature and Culture in the Roman Empire, 96–235 by Alice König,Rebecca Langlands,James Uden Pdf

Discovers new connections and cross-fertilisations between different cultural, linguistic and religious communities in the Roman Empire.

Author : Rosie Wyles,Edith Hall
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191089657

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Women Classical Scholars by Rosie Wyles,Edith Hall Pdf

Women Classical Scholars: Unsealing the Fountain from the Renaissance to Jacqueline de Romilly is the first written history of the pioneering women born between the Renaissance and 1913 who played significant roles in the history of classical scholarship. Facing seemingly insurmountable obstacles from patriarchal social systems and educational institutions - from learning Latin and Greek as a marginalized minority, to being excluded from institutional support, denigrated for being lightweight or over-ambitious, and working in the shadows of husbands, fathers, and brothers - they nevertheless continued to teach, edit, translate, analyse, and elucidate the texts left to us by the ancient Greeks and Romans. In this volume twenty essays by international leaders in the field chronicle the lives of women from around the globe who have shaped the discipline over more than five hundred years. Arranged in broadly chronological order from the Italian, Iberian, and Portuguese Renaissance through to the Stalinist Soviet Union and occupied France, they synthesize illuminating overviews of the evolution of classical scholarship with incisive case-studies into often overlooked key figures: some, like Madame Anne Dacier, were already famous in their home countries but have been neglected in previous, male-centred accounts, while others have been almost completely lost to the mainstream cultural memory. This book identifies and celebrates them - their frustrations, achievements, and lasting records; in so doing it provides the classical scholars of today, regardless of gender, with the female intellectual ancestors they did not know they had.

Author : Elizabeth D. Carney,Sabine Müller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429783982

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The Routledge Companion to Women and Monarchy in the Ancient Mediterranean World by Elizabeth D. Carney,Sabine Müller Pdf

This volume offers the first comprehensive look at the role of women in the monarchies of the ancient Mediterranean. It consistently addresses certain issues across all dynasties: title; role in succession; the situation of mothers, wives, and daughters of kings; regnant and co-regnant women; role in cult and in dynastic image; and examines a sampling of the careers of individual women while placing them within broader contexts. Written by an international group of experts, this collection is based on the assumption that women played a fundamental role in ancient monarchy, that they were part of, not apart from it, and that it is necessary to understand their role to understand ancient monarchies. This is a crucial resource for anyone interested in the role of women in antiquity.